My now former employer had an HR policy that they could not extend an offer to someone unless they interviewed a "diverse" (ie. non-White and non-Asian, White or Asian female) candidate.
We had a STEM PhD interview from one of the major US "Institutes of Technology" with extremely relevant academic and hands-on experience (the latter being extremely rare IME for people with those academic credentials and therefore extremely valuable) that we could not give an offer to because we couldn't find a "diverse" candidate to interview.
S&P 500 company and on the conservative side as far as they go, so if this was their policy it's almost certainly policy a bunch of other places.
Think about how many people have lost out on opportunities earned through their hard work, because of vile garbage like this, and the vile human garbage that institutes these policies.
Suffice to say when I found out about it (since I did the screener technical interview and was singing his praises) I started putting a lot less effort into interviewing people, because "what does it matter when we can't fucking hire them anyways?"
My now former employer had an HR policy that they could not extend an offer to someone unless they interviewed a "diverse" (ie. non-White and non-Asian, White or Asian female) candidate.
We had a STEM PhD interview from one of the major US "Institutes of Technology" with extremely relevant academic and hands-on experience (the latter being extremely rare IME for people with those academic credentials and therefore extremely valuable) that we could not give an offer to because we couldn't find a "diverse" candidate to interview.
S&P 500 company and on the conservative side as far as they go, so if this was their policy it's almost certainly policy a bunch of other places.
Think about how many people have lost out on opportunities earned through their hard work, because of vile garbage like this, and the vile human garbage that institutes these policies.
Suffice to say when I found out about it (since I did the screener technical interview and was singing his praises) I started putting a lot less effort into interviewing people, because "what does it matter when we can't fucking hire them anyways?"