DEI hiring is real and exists not only in Citi, but also other companies.
DEI hiring is reverse-discrimination. But it's discrimation nevertheless!
I'm in charge of keeping track of metrics reporting for hiring and employee count.
Occasionally, the department is ordered to bypass a more qualified Non-DEI job candidate for a 2nd, 3rd or 4th choice DEI candidate.
This means if the top 3 job candidates are Non-DEI and the 4th is DEI, but the Department's employee counts and distributions show the Dept. needs to show/have an additional DEI employee, the top 3 job candidates will Not be offered the job.
These policies place Citi in weak positions against its competitors. The above policies are akin to choosing your 2nd, 3rd or even 4th best athlete to compete or be placed on the country's Olympic Team while still believing the country's team has a shot at a getting a medal or even Gold medal.
LMFAO!
Only Fools 🤡 do this.
Common sense dictates you doNot let your weak or weakest players/athletes compete against the other teams because the other teams certainly have their best players on the battlefield.
But then Citi has Never had common sense or "intelligence".