The hiring process is too late to address the problem of the birth lottery though. By that point you're stuck with candidates who either do or do not have the required skills. Fixing the birth lottery problem would need to be done at something closer to elementary school age to make sure people have a more even starting condition.
Ironically, the people I know who are most adamantly against DEI are actually minorities. It must be horrible to actually be qualified and have to go through your entire career with everyone assuming you're useless. I had an American Indian friend who worked on a team where literally everyone on the team was a DEI hire and he was the only person who wasn't entirely useless. He eventually got fed up and quit and they had to just disband the entire team because they could no longer function when the only person with any skills quit.
I'm a white guy so I've never been a DEI hire, but I do actually have a similar experience from early in my career. I interviewed for and was offered a technical position that I was qualified for and they pulled a bait and switch on me. Just before I started they said, oh by the way we actually need you to work on THIS team for awhile first and manage this other equipment until we finish decommissioning it. I was nervous about it but I figured I already know everyone on the team so they should be able to train me in a reasonable amount of time.
To my surprise though, I showed up on day 1 to find that they had fired the entire team just before I started. So here I am replacing a team of 5 people and managing equipment I had no experience with without any training. I spent 6 months essentially doing my job by googling how the F do I do XYZ, to find vendor documentation on how to do a job I was clearly unqualified for. I eventually moved into the position I was actually hired for and qualified for but I would not have wished that prior experience on anyone.
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