My boss moved on a few years ago and recommended me to be his replacement. Despite consistently glowing reviews, upper management did not take his recommendation and instead brought in someone objectively less qualified who better fits with the company’s stated diversity initiatives. At the time, I dismissed the assertion by a couple of members of the management team that I was passed over because I’m a white male, but since then I’ve noticed that of all the people in my facility who have been promoted from individual contributor to management positions, not one has been a white male. This leads me to believe that perhaps there is some sort of moratorium on promoting “over represented” demographic groups into management positions.
This is all just conjecture on my part, but does anyone know if there is actually anything to this? Anyone have an inside scoop on if certain demographic groups are being actively excluded?