u/Solarplexusstoppage

I used to be an internal recruiter at PP. Day one, I was told not to forward any non-white candidates. Management said the Kensington/Chelsea clients would complain if the engineer wasn’t white. Visible tattoos were also an automatic no.

If a CV passed, we’d do a phone screen, then a face-to-face. If they impressed, senior decision makers came in for the final call.

PP HQ is in Lambeth North, a multicultural area. Out of ∼250 staff, 99% were white.

I’d done agency recruitment for 9 years before taking this internal role as a stopgap. I was already burned out on the industry.