When I was involved in hiring a few years ago I had to put together all the top applicstions, we had about 80 after removing the junk.
90% white males applied.
HR came in and went down my list saying "white male, white male, white male, white male ugh"
Told me I couldn't have so many white males on the list.
After an interview with one of the white males said the HR boss something like "he's great, too bad he's a white dude"
They ended up hiring two people, a White girl and an Asian guy but they had a huge debate about if his being Asian outweighed the sin of him being male.
When I said "We should just hire the best" I was told "If we only hired the best then the whole company would be white dudes" which was amazing to hear an HR dept admit.
Anyway the company is now on the brink of collapse.
When I was involved in hiring a few years ago I had to put together all the top applicstions, we had about 80 after removing the junk. 90% white males applied. HR came in and went down my list saying "white male, white male, white male, white male ugh" Told me I couldn't have so many white males on the list. After an interview with one of the white males said the HR boss something like "he's great, too bad he's a white dude" They ended up hiring two people, a White girl and an Asian guy but they had a huge debate about if his being Asian outweighed the sin of him being male. When I said "We should just hire the best" I was told "If we only hired the best then the whole company would be white dudes" which was amazing to hear an HR dept admit.
Anyway the company is now on the brink of collapse.