The irony is that DEI promotes merit by forcing companies to justify hiring beyond basic “cultural fit” vibes.

I’ve been in the business and seen a ton of hires on vibes. DEI actually asked people to expand the talent search, not hire anyone unqualified (which is what the anti-DEI folks are desperate to have us believe it did).

I predict some major EEO lawsuits will eventually bring the pendulum back in the other direction because my sense is that the return to vibes hiring (and RIF-ing) is resulting in very actionable discrimination cases.

▲ semiquaver 3 hours ago | parent [-]

  > my sense is that the return to vibes hiring (and RIF-ing) is resulting in very actionable discrimination cases.

Your sense? Based on what?

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mullingitover 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The enthusiasm for disparaging DEI combined with a lack of articulation of how they plan to quantify 'qualifications' in a non-biased manner. My sense is that they don't plan to do this at all, they don't have a plan, and they are going to blunder into patterns of discriminatory practices that DEI frameworks were protecting them against.

	▲	semiquaver 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Who is “they?” All employers? With respect, it seems like the hiring managers you were complaining about above weren’t the only ones operating mostly on vibes.