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A new investigation reports Well Fargo has been conducting fake job interviews to seemingly increase its diversity hiring pool. Specifically, the company would interview diverse candidates even after the job already had been promised to someone else in an attempt to create a paper trail in case they ever were audited.
Seven current and former employees support these claims. One employee noticed Wells Fargo would call in for an interview diverse candidates, typically women or people of color, even though the role already was filled. The employee, who subsequently has been fired, complained to his superiors that the fake interviews were both morally and ethically objectionable.
The employee joined Wells Fargo in 2000 and had responsibility for hiring financial advisers and consultants. He alleges his supervisors advised him to fill the lower paying of the two jobs with Black candidates. He additionally alleges the company typically already had selected alternate candidates for the positions. He eventually refused to conduct interviews with employees he knew Wells Fargo had no intention of hiring
Another Wells Fargo employee corroborates these claims. This employee was a senior manager in Nashville, Tennessee. The employee asserts he was told to reach out to others for leads on filling a sales assistant position and document his efforts to recruit a non-white candidate. At the same time, the employee states he was informed to whom the position actually would go in advance of any interviews.
Wells Fargo denies these allegations stating there's no sound reason for Wells Fargo to conduct false interviews.
