Example 1: candidate interviews for a SWE job, fails that round, but decent enough to be considered for a sales engineer cause of good people/comm skills.

Example 2: candidate interviews for SWE job, comes from under-represented background, scores below the require threshold, gets pushed through because of DEI. If the case is close, the recruiter is required to find examples - references (external or internal) that are positive, which isn't hard.