Hell, it was only after a TON of hate crimes that people realized Asians may not just be a different flavor of White in the office.
Someone got called a valuable resource. Then had to listen to them rage for hours at being labeled a resource.
Of course in the spirit of diversity they mocked their mostly white customers endlessly.
Was a horrible horrible job.
I happen to be latino, and only after wasting my time with an entire loop at Microsoft with a bunch of clowns that had no interest in hiring me, did I realize that
1. my recruiter had been a “diversity and inclusion” recruiter
2. Microsoft has policies that require many eng. Managers to check the box of having interviewed a “diverse” candidate before extending an offer.
That’s why they do “hiring events” where everyone who conducts the interview is a hiring manager.
I cannot emphasize enough how disinterested the people who interviewed me where. All the coding questions i had about 20 minutes and they were Leetcode hards. One of them was so fucking incompetent that when I solved it, (most LC hards would take me considerably longer but this was in my wheelhouse) he was confused until I explained it step by step.
Tl;DR
Microsoft DEI policies wasted my time and also Microsoft seems to be staffed by a bunch of clueless clowns.
Just call people what they want to be called. This goes for Americans too even though "America" means the whole hemisphere. When Italians are talking about a watered down coffee, they aren't blaming it on Colombia.