Of course you could always just hire based upon ability.
All these SV companies hire based on ability. They are many things, but stupid is not one of them. The best people will be kept on the key projects. Those hired for “diversity” reasons will be put in places that best suit their ability, but that maximize the PR impact and minimize the damage they can cause.
I recently watched a “couples that kill” episode that featured New Orleans “policewoman”(?) Antoinette Frank. She applied for a job as a cop there (pre-Katrina), and was rejected for psychological reasons. She found a loophole that allowed her to get her own psych exam (which of course she passed with flying colors), and she was hired - because New Orleans thought it would help to have black females as cops.
A white co-worker lined up an off-duty gig for her working security at a Vietnamese restaurant, and she started dating a young drug dealer who was shot (she was assigned to his case). She would actually answer calls with this drug dealer IN HER POLICE CAR. Anyway, she and the dealer rob the Vietnamese restaurant, killing the cop who got her the off-duty gig (he also worked security there) and two members of the family that owned it; two surviving family members describe her personally shooting their siblings. She and her boyfriend have been on death row for years now; many other people involved in hiring/arming her should be there with them.
Diversity for diversity’s sake is ridiculous and costly.