I’m an associate-level engineer. Why would a company, many of which are increasingly proud of their diverse team, pick a white engineer when there are hundreds of equally skilled junior applicants that won’t bring down their recruiting metrics?

I’ve literally seen recruiting KPIs at previous startups involve how many black or woman engineers they hire in a quarter.

My current attempts at breaking into the industry is currently being made more difficult by the previous decades of inequity in software engineering teams.