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Of course this was my first hiring, so I had some learning to do including understanding org politics and let's say I wasted a month in that. And 4 months was not all interviews, it was the end to end process from the time I was given the position till the time the offer was sent out. Pretty sure I will be able to do it faster next time around, all other things including job markets being same.

And there were no diversity quotas, just that management will keep asking are you being diverse and my manager will throw a fit every time his managers will ask this question since our org was pretty much uniracial, but it was not me who built it :)