What they should strive for is a diversity of backgrounds, viewpoints, experiences and have that process account for the differences in how those people arrived at where they currently are.
As far as I understand, all companies need to have a pretty solid overlap of "common opinions" or else you are going to have political deadlock.
If you have examples to the contrary I'm really curious to learn about how they worked.
Diversity in terms of measurable metrics, such as women/minorities/LGBT++ being adequately represented, is simply a benchmark that can be paraded around for appeasement purposes.
What the hell. How can you say that with a straight face?
Of the two best engineers I know, one is is black and the other is trans. They're both 10x engineers.
I didn't.
> They're both 10x engineers.
https://medium.com/@yuval.idan5/the-10x-engineer-myth-is-wro...
https://sparktoro.com/blog/belief-in-the-mythical-10x-hire-h...
Poe's law likely applies here.