As a newbie I would expect to start at the bottom (even with prior experience in my home country) and work my way up. May be my values are outdated in these times? But I make no apology for that.
Yeah, so true. Everyone should start at the bottom.
Tick box hiring is incredibly patronising. My wife, who is blind, has said on multiple occasions 'I want to get a job because it was agreed I was the best candidate, not to make up a quota'.
How do you know it was because of a quota ? Are there quota systems in place anywhere ? What if that quota is reached ? Can we then continue employing straight and white ? Is it because a brown skinned person got the job that it was purely because they wanted to tick a box ?