“It isn’t about the company, because you want the best for the best bottom line. It’s the executive that is benefitting in some way. Job assurance by surrounding himself with incompetents, perhaps? “
In the current Regime, for those in elite institutions, positioning yourself more to the Left is the safest place to be.
This type of hiring discrimination is going on in every Western country, The only difference is that in the USA it is illegal to do this - so best not to say it on video.
That may be true, but for this exec I take his culture into consideration. To him, he’s using DEI to push out whites and Asians so he can hire his fellow Indians to take over IBM. He will begrudgingly hire whites and Asians for lower paid positions.