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Bonuses at a company like Microsoft are typically based on an employee's performance - how well they met their stated goals, etc. Obviously, if a company goal is to have a diverse workforce, whether or not that happens is going to influence the bonuses of the people responsible for it. If this is an unacceptable outcome, you're suggesting that diversity can't be a company goal, period.

Like I've said before, it's a sorting problem - if implementing an algorithm correctly requires sorting some values to the top and some to the middle, you shouldn't get full credit if your implementation doesn't do that.

We're not talking about soviet russia production quotas being exploited here, just about adjusting the way candidates are found and ranked.