> "We're looking for foreign-sounding names."

NAL but that's like a question you'd get on an HR training test. Yes, that's illegal, regardless of motive.

The obvious reason being this is an astroturfing post?

> He told me, "We're looking for foreign-sounding names."

I call bullshit. Making a throwaway account doesn't make you an undercover Microsoft employee.

If it were about DEI, they would just say it. Not give you an obtuse answer.