It's 2015. Technology companies are feeling enormous pressure to hire more diverse employees. In an effort to increase these diversity metrics, they decide to do the unthinkable: they lower their hiring bar. However, since diversity is still a relatively new thing in the industry, hiring managers are unfamiliar with what a diverse candidate even looks like. This is what leads to their fatal mistake. They accidentally hire...a zombie.  This zombie is the worst possible zombie a tech company can imagine. Instead of killing people and eating brains, this zombie underperforms and kills the morale of its teammates. The "bad employee" virus spreads through the company like wildfire and soon, everyone is doing nothing of value. The engineering team starts putting out a prolific amount of low-quality code. Bugs are increasing exponentially. Users are having issues and no one is solving them. The platform is hemorrhaging customers by the minute.   The company's value plummets and finally, the worst part of the worst-case scenario happens: the company goes under and is forced to merge with the Canadian government to become a public service. But it doesn't stop there. The tech industry starts collapsing, and another bust is upon us. Companies fall, one after the other, and even the impenetrable brogrammer castle that is Uber is not spared this deadly virus. Marc Andreessen would be tweeting about how this wasn't the result of a bubble, but he, too, has been infected and his account is eerily quiet.  Much like the first dot-com crash, the highways are all empty. Twitter is silent, and the tech industry is completely out of unicorns to blog incessantly about. All because one tech company chose to lower the bar in the name of diversity.