“how could Google’s management and engineering teams think that they could get away with such a blatant DEI infusion without it being immediately spotted and openly mocked?”
Have you ever been to Mountain View? The Google Campus? Or maybe Cupertino where a lotta Google employees live?
Hint: You might thing you were in Madras or Mumbai. And that’s the way the whole valley feels these days. White people - cough, the Americans - are only about 1/4 of the population anymore, and going down.
Take a look at the Cupertino High School website. The junior prom page is especially enlightening. Note that in 1985, this school was about 85% White.
And that’s why Google people think it’s perfectly normal.
Yes, I’ve been to Mountain View. Couple of times.
It’s not just the border we have to worry about. H-1b is a mixed blessing.