[masonium]

What you describe is probably mathematically impossible, but it definitely does not reflect reality.

Facebook's median tenure is 2.3 years, so at least 50% of all people at Facebook were hired during the past 2.3 years. If there were a true 'quota' of 30% of BIPOC during that period (a small fraction of the time since their first DEI report), you would necessarily have at 15% of employees represented as such. By Facebook's own numbers, in the article, that is not the case. So, what can we conclude? Either:

1) Facebook's BIPOC employees leave at a much higher rate than other employees (implying a large problem in and of itself). 2) Facebook does not, in fact, have a 30% minimum quota for BIPOC hires.

Your comment, in fact, would deny not only the implication of the article but even the basic facts therein. We know from above that Facebook is definitely not hiring at 30%, so why in the world would they reject a Black PhD in a relevant field, if the will "just hire any [one], culture fit or not"?

[ThrowAwayNonEng]

Is tenure calculated only for departed employees, or also for present employees, too?

If it's the former, then 2.3 years is REALLY low.

[masonium]

I think it's a function of employee growth, moreso than turnover. They grew from 35.6k employees in 2018 to 58.6k employees in 2020, so almost 40% of their current workforce was non-replacement hiring in the past 2 years.