I've been trying hard to avoid this conclusion for a while. I'm an engineering manager, white, male. The last time I was on the job market was almost a decade ago. At the time, while I wasn't looking for management roles, I had a strong resume and was able to get almost any interview I wanted. (Of course, passing those interviews was a different matter, but my resume definitely passed initial screens easily.)

Today my resume should by all measures be much stronger, yet for months now I haven't gotten a single interview anywhere (with one exception, Google, but they didn't offer me a management loop so I didn't pursue it). Luckily I wasn't laid off so I don't need a new job. I started this search mostly out of curiosity initially and wasn't that serious about it. I was shocked at some of the companies rejecting my resume and continued the search just to see how much the pattern would continue. Could I really be getting rejected just at the resume screening phase repeatedly with years of experience managing managers, launching multimillion dollar products, a great education, published papers, patents, conference presentations, etc.?

Even the company where I work at has recently launched a new D&I program. Our executive leadership is generally very focused on business success so this is not something they were willing to do until they apparently felt a lot of pressure from the current social climate. I do not believe they are going to actually act on it in any really disruptive or destructive way (indeed, their business sense is part of why we had zero layoffs while other companies in the space have laid off hundreds or thousands or just went bankrupt). However, it's clear that a lot of companies throughout the industry are essentially going all-in on D&I right now. I can no longer ignore the possible conclusion that I cannot get hired for any kind of management role anymore simply because I'm a white guy.

To all the white men in the technology industry here, be wary. Your job prospects may be disappearing from underneath you rapidly right now, especially the higher up in management you are. If you're entry level the situation may not be as bad. Having white men in management right now is considered "shameful," so there's increasingly no way you'll be considered unless you have one hell of a slam dunk background.