Usually the hiring dept isn’t technical. They actually don’t know shit about what’s actually required (intellectually and personality-wise) to actually innovate  collaboratively at a technical position. They wouldn’t even get it.

These kind of people are ovnis in excellent engineering companies. So most HR recruiters will fall into the proximity bias by hiring relatable NPCs who will ofc perform poorly, and then the CEOs will complain about high skilled engineers deficit in their countries.

This has nothing to do with DEI but with proximity bias whenever any company starts scaling.