As a guy in Eastern European who has worked 99% of the time in the EU market, I am very happy that I have almost never seen any DEI actions in person. But the

As a guy in Eastern European who has worked 99% of the time in the EU market, I am very happy that I have almost never seen any DEI actions in person. But the very few times that I did it left a very bitter taste; that otherwise well-sounding initiative was hijacked to hire much less capable people who were commanding almost the same salary as mine or the other team members' while doing barely 10% of the work (vetted via code output and team discussion collaboration; nobody knew what that person was doing, even his direct supervisor who was also their coach buddy). And it was doubly strange because the company actively went out of its way to look for these people, easily spending times more on hiring even single such person as compared to, you know, posting on several reputable job boards and filtering resumes. I suspect it was investor pressure. Or the CEO getting a "life-changing experience" after watching a few videos. Oh and you know what happened to those forced hires? Months later the CTO and two other seniors said "it's me or them" and had their resignation ready on the same day. Turns out business interests do override some nebulous diversity targets after all. Take a guess who actually left / was fired? Exercise for the reader.