At least in the case of an intern we had, she went to some other company. Which in fairness, was the better choice. In the conversation we were having, the manager even told her to go to any other company if she has the option because they will pay more. One of the best managers I've seen and he wasn't even my manager. Of course he left for another company shortly after.
In a work conversation, a coworker mentioned recruiting more women to work for us. I basically said we're never going to win against FAANG companies competing for the limited pool of women software engineers, and he didn't have a response to that.
Some companies may not be diverse because they don't want to hire from under represented categories, but because candidates from those categories have better offers.
Weird how there’s programs for the majority (women) when the minority (men) succeed — but no help for the minority (men) in any form. And this isn’t some new issue… men have been the minority in education longer than I’ve been alive.
The women hired as a result of the program were far more socially diverse than people from the other hiring pipelines and I think that is of greater value than the fact that they were women.
IME, a bunch of them were sweetheart good deals and giveaways to BigCo's own daughters, cousins, sister-in-laws. And the money sloshes around amongst the wealthy inner crowd.
I worked at a BigCo that did all the usual DEI garbage and their only initiative that actually had results was the one where they spent a bunch of money sponsoring "women in stem" stuff at the high-school and college level.