[hdctambien]

What do you do when both A and B score a 95 and there is only one job?

That's what DEI solves for. Not "higher a lesser candidate," but "when both candidates are equal, use diversity of the company when making the final decision"

[lazide]

affirmative action as implemented requires percentage targets (based on statistical models of the overall population) based on race/gender/etc.

If you don’t get enough candidates, or the candidates you do get don’t happen to exactly align quality wise on whatever other criteria you are using, of the right race, gender, etc. what do you think actually happens?

NOTE: I have been told multiple times by HR reps and recruiters that what happens is not what you assert. I have also been told multiple times by HR reps and recruiters that I should say what you are asserting if anyone asks.

[logifail]

I don't wish to throw any fuel onto the fire, but people appear to have very different experiences of DEI.

[account42]

Yes, we had a word for that: racism.