What they clearly are obsessed about is hiring literally not a single person who is middle age or above. http://imgur.com/a/ZsS81 They are so ageist it boggles the mind.

That pictures a bit old, but even still there're at least a handful of "middle aged or above" people shown. Also, I started working at Lever after this photo was taken. Not only am I middle-aged, but there are plenty of us here who are.

Can you highlight the five 40+year olds in that picture? I can maybe see two.

Not the OP, but if you ask me, I'd say that society as a whole has a very obsession-like fixation on equality of all kinds. It is the absolute hot-topic being injected into almost every discussion and field. From the other side as well because there are people that opposed to the way it's being forced-upon individuals/companies.

It has come to a point where dissenting opinions on the matter are actively vilified and who knows what other forms of actual discrimination. I guarantee you that I would treat every person I interact with with absolute courtesy and respect their known boundaries in all aspects except their opinions. And I am reasonably sure that there are hiring teams out there that would skip me because they'd find my comments distasteful or worse. "Culture fit"

I mentioned that I'd probably be discriminated against in a hiring context due to my views, if I were to make them obvious or easily available.

But, tangentially and not in an American context: This currently affects the place where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Based_Black_Economic_Emp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment

It actively rewards companies for hiring non-white individuals (and white individuals are a minority here). Such a company would gain preferential access to government contracts via a "point based" system that influences their choice in employees/owners and suppliers. It's really just a proxy for coercing companies into hiring for quotas rather than actual talent/availability, and for preferring suppliers based on their black-ownership rather than their ability to deliver. This sort of thing spiders-out into the overall economy outside of just government contracts.