A result of hiring from the Ivies?
Hasn’t been a good place to hire undergrads from for a couple decades.
Not necessarily. They come from all over. It started after 9/11 under the proposition that diversity was a strength, and Congress pumped a lot of money to hire within the IC.
Diversity is an HR strategy that ensures mediocrity.
For example, the 2017 DIA employee of the year was a guy in a dress. He got it because of the single accomplishment of deploying to Afghanistan, a pretty low bar.
That is when I knew the days of the USA were numbered, so I left the following year.