You're suggesting I'm playing broken telephone game, yet you're the one extrapolating your company's experience to all the other hundreds.
I can't speak for Amazon's policies. But there are companies that have headcount for N people, and N/X slots will be for Y identity.
Then you have companies like Twitter that literally say on their hiring boards:
"Our vision for the future is clear.
50%.
At least half of our global workforce will be women.
25%
At least a quarter of our US workforce will be under-represented minorities."[0]
Key word "will", not "would like." How do you interpret that as a goal as opposed to a clear quota?
Honestly I can't wrap my head around how Twitter believes 45% men / 55% women is the ideal and 55% men / 45% women would be unacceptable.
Most of the large tech companies have similar hiring policies. It’s not unreasonable to think what goes at Amazon is fairly similar to what goes on at Apple, Google, etc. There’s a reason the FAANG acronym exists.
Also, if your takeaway from “at least half the employees will be women” as a goal, at a time when the breakdown is 43% women, and has been a lot lower for the past decade, is that “55% women is ok but 55% men is not”, it’s pretty obvious you’re arguing in bad faith.
It’s pretty obvious that’s a goal that at least half the workforce will be women in fewer than 4 years. What that actually means is that Twitter is likely gonna barely cross the 50% mark, if they are even gonna meet it.
The reality is that the moment they hit 50% they will ease off on the effort to recruit more women than men, which, thanks to structural factors that have led to the current unbalanced distribution of employees, will only make their hiring easier ans allow them to continue hiring equitably.
Then you have companies like Twitter that literally say on their hiring boards:
"Our vision for the future is clear.
50%.
At least half of our global workforce will be women.
25%
At least a quarter of our US workforce will be under-represented minorities."[0]
Key word "will", not "would like." How do you interpret that as a goal as opposed to a clear quota?
Honestly I can't wrap my head around how Twitter believes 45% men / 55% women is the ideal and 55% men / 45% women would be unacceptable.
[0]https://careers.twitter.com/en/diversity.html