In any place where I worked, all it influenced was where the intake funnel was sourced from. Once someone was in the recruiting funnel, it had exactly zero bear

In any place where I worked, all it influenced was where the intake funnel was sourced from. Once someone was in the recruiting funnel, it had exactly zero bearing on interviews and hiring decisions. From observing the public behavior of the current regime and it's war against DEI, it itself seems to be lazer-focused on hiring unqualified morons whose most important quality is loyalty to the supreme leader. Methinks merit was never the goal, and DEI was just a figleaf to get angry culture warriors to turn out and vote for them.