Oh it's known because they had a big work meeting before hand about it and hiring diversity. They told the employees themselves in a DEI meeting.More likely your buddy was embellishing to make you laugh.
How does he know they were hired to fill diversity quotas? There’s HR depts and privacy laws. Even the DEI hires themselves do not know if they were hired to fill quotas
I realize I'm words on a screen at some level here, but this guy is far more serious and tism stricken for that whole joke part. He was devastated, it's his career and he doesn't consider it a joke