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>My wife has seen this, being one of the hires made to fill a quota while working at EA.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm very curious how far companies go to fill quotas and how much weight is put into race/gender.

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This is her favorite "token female" story. Basically, for a temp QA position she was given a test to test a short section of a videogame. Her goal was to identify all the bugs she possibly could. When I took the same test, I had identified about 15, and I missed a lot of them. She identified 0. She was hired. She was also given a "most improved" award at the end of the testing cycle, and got a copy of Fifa for the Game Boy Color as her prize.

Put another way, she had no past experience, displayed no aptitude for the position, and she was hired. She was, the manager admitted to her later, also the only woman to apply.

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