Bootcamps are no longer worth it!

No not at all. It's much more complicated than that. So take Meta for example. In the early days, they found graduates from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Waterloo, UW, Brown, etc... who tended to perform best a couple years later, so they focused on hiring from those schools. Those graduates tended to set hiring requirements that people from those schools would then meet, kind of like a cycle. DEI hiring is about casting a wider net from the sources you typically have been considering, to get more diverse backgrounds. I'm not talking about protected classes or minorities, just diverse from what the company was used to hiring. A company should be able to hire anyone they legally want to hire, and DEI efforts are about challenge historical hiring norms so bring in people that might take the company to a higher maximum instead of s local maximum.