The National Bureau of Economic Research did an experiment where they sent in the same résumé for the same job under "white-sounding" and "black-sounding names"

The National Bureau of Economic Research did an experiment where they sent in the same résumé for the same job under "white-sounding" and "black-sounding names": the "white" names got about 50% more call-backs than the "black" names. [1] Granted, this wasn't aimed at tech companies. [1] http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html