I directly know of a well known international institution that did the PC thing when trying to hire someone (“we’ll very much prefer if you’d send us a woman instead of a man for on-premises support role”) but they were smart enough to only say this over the phone, not over email, especially not in an official manner out in the open. If Google really did the thing you say they did (not saying that they didn’t, is just that a source would be helpful) then they’re beyond stupid. If it matters I live in Europe, not in the States.

Oh yeah, it's very much a thing. Someone responsible for hiring in my office regularly engages in illegal PC-motivated resume dumping and regularly brags and laughs about it.

I've kept my mouth shut because I value my job, I don't trust the system to protect me from retaliation, and the guy in question isn't dumb enough to make his confessions in written media.

This just seems hard to believe given how strapped for manpower everyone seems to be, and how limited the quality of the resumes walking in the door are.

Yes, discrimination costs, but the person in question doesn't care or has rationalized the costs away.

Do you have a link you can share about that? I can’t seem to find anything.