> I've also see a lot less focus on diverse racial hiring, and interestingly, at a number of companies, there are teams of 10 people who are either all Chinese or Indian. I've worked in one in my career, and it wasn't good. I obviously didn't belong.
This is incredibly common but HR and the usual diversity folk don't seem to touch on this topic much. Not being part of the in-group may result in a less-than-stellar performance review regardless of work output. Some of them purposely accumulate sacrificial lambs so they have more positive reviews to give out during stack ranking, and they need scapegoats to take the fall when the time for forced attrition comes.
This is incredibly common but HR and the usual diversity folk don't seem to touch on this topic much. Not being part of the in-group may result in a less-than-stellar performance review regardless of work output. Some of them purposely accumulate sacrificial lambs so they have more positive reviews to give out during stack ranking, and they need scapegoats to take the fall when the time for forced attrition comes.