[president]

I work at a large Silicon Valley company and a portion of Directory/VP bonus is earned by ensuring hiring meets certain "diversity" quotas. There have been many internal stories of managers hiring based on race to make sure they receive their full bonus. Not sure how this isn't illegal.

[bombcar]

If you are very careful about almost making sure you're working on getting more applicants you are almost certainly in the clear.

Once you start implementing hiring quotas you need to be very careful, but right now you can probably get away with it unless someone is willing to take the risk to sue (it would probably destroy their reputation to do such a thing).

[systemvoltage]

I never understood D&I in corporations. How is it diverse when everyone looks different but thinks exactly the same way?

[crackercrews]

Looks great in the photos on the corporate website though.

[systemvoltage]

I actually had HR take a photo of me and put it in their diversity brochure. I am not white so that makes me somehow useful.

[tablespoon]

> I never understood D&I in corporations. How is it diverse when everyone looks different but thinks exactly the same way?

Because it's not really about diversity per se:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/elites-populists-...:

> His argument, in brief: “In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.” With the lost salience of luxury items, “the upper classes have found a clever solution to this problem: luxury beliefs. These are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.”