What I've seen and hate in recent years is HR taking control of pipeline and interview panels so that individual interviewers or hiring managers don't see all a

What I've seen and hate in recent years is HR taking control of pipeline and interview panels so that individual interviewers or hiring managers don't see all applicants or interview feedback. They don't want teams recruiting from their network or discussing openly. This basically results in a lot of mediocre "diverse" candidates, and many hiring objections being ignored or not shared with others. It’s ironic, because my teams typically were the most diverse when you look at their economic backgrounds, graduating from state schools, older people, veterans, etc. - while other teams I worked with were very frequently monocultures of young attractive people from good schools and backgrounds. But somehow skin color makes things “diverse“.