1-in-6 managers told to deprioritize hiring white men, 48% diversity over merit

Several years ago, at a previous employer, a colleague whose technical ability I had deep respect for confided in me that he was only interviewing women until the representation on his team reached &gt;50%. When I pointed out that was probably illegal and certainly unethical and lowers the chance of selecting the most qualified candidate, he said selecting the most qualified candidate was less important than &quot;levelling the playing field.&quot; I don&#x27;t think he ever considered the irony of his viewpoint that &quot;women can only succeed if I enable it.&quot;<p>I wish I could say this is a rare viewpoint, but this sort of overt discrimination appears to be rampant in certain tech circles.

It took us 4 months to hire a woman to our team while we wasted the time of over a dozen qualified men interviewing people we knew we would not hire. I found this deeply distasteful.

My gut says it&#x27;s worse than the numbers here suggest. I&#x27;ve been in more than one situation where no one outright said &quot;Don&#x27;t hire any more white men&quot;, but they made themselves clear nonetheless. The &#x27;ole, &quot;Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?&quot;.

Striking headline and summary data, but I don&#x27;t like that the surveyors seem cagey about releasing the full data. Why should you have to contact they to get it vs. just putting it out there for transparency?<p>Surely the true number isn&#x27;t 0 for each, but it may not be that high - or at least people may not be as willing to be upfront or see it that way.<p>&gt;Methodology &gt;This survey was commissioned by ResumeBuilder.com and conducted online by the survey platform Pollfish on November 2, 2022. In total, 1,000 participants in the U.S. were surveyed. All participants had to pass through demographic filters to ensure they were age 18 or older, currently employed for wages or self-employed, and manage at least 25% of the hiring at their workplace. For full survey results, please contact pr@resumebuilder.com.

Sounds like a crap survey.<p>Literally, every company has been training staff to not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, national origin etc because it would run afoul of Civil rights law.<p>Is this a new bogeyman like the evil Jews who were conniving against the majority Germans in the 1920s as per Nazi propaganda.