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by dghf 4350 days ago
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