If for instance higher ups from all companies require you to hire only whites with straight blond hair, a certain weight/size and with green eyes, you will quickly need to hire the bottom of the barrel of this group to expand your teams.
Numbers were not invented, they were tied to management bonuses, numbers lower than that negatively impacted bonuses. Inhouse counsel were much more worried about disparate impact lawsuits than race quota lawsuits. There are many reasons why I, and others like me, can't post personal anecdotes publicly.
Not absolutely everything was great before DEI, and DEI is not the only problem. I gave a number of other problems that have diminished the efficacy of research orgs.
Corporate labs have now gotten so bad that I can outcompete them as an individual which would have been much more difficult in the past.
So I hire a few aryan scrum masters and keep it moving. Usually in these fantasies people don't pick as blatant a number as 50% of their team needing to become black/women.
Would still like to hear about how their already successful department was brought low by the black plauge, but he's not replying with actual details so I guess he didn't invent that much of the story yet.