Wow - how do we even <i>classify</i> this - it&#x27;s clearly not just a story.  Is it a case study?  Series?  It feels like it&#x27;s almost book length - sort of thing we&#x27;ll be readying for days (if not weeks).<p>Has NYT ever done an article in this format before?<p>The &quot;Blind Hiring&quot; section starts off great:<p><i>A few years ago, Kedar Iyer, an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, became acutely aware of a problem in his industry: A surfeit of talented coders were routinely overlooked by employers because they lacked elite pedigrees. Hiring managers, he thought, were too often swayed by the name of a fancy college on a résumé. </i>