I'm not the user you are responding to, but the general view of people who make this comment is that it discriminates against people are who are well-represented on the boards of financial and technology firms.

Which is true, because all forms of hiring are discrimination. Business discriminate against people who don't have the qualifications that they believe will positively impact their business.

If the user you responded to has reason to believe that a certain company has hired certain individuals who are not qualified to do the job they were hired for, I encourage her to say that. But it's not enough to say the practice is blanket good or bad. There are just too many variables to account for.