Blind hiring is a good idea. But definitely cannot explain the bulk of the issue. It is systemic and the article completely writes of the idea that there is a pipeline problem - which ignores a lot of the pre-college factors that go into whether or not a student of a minority demographic can succeed in a top tier engineering program in particular (I mention engineering because the article refers to Silicon Valley jobs a lot).<p>Below are two pieces on the demographics of engineers at Harvard and Stanford: they show pretty clearly that the percent of Black and Hispanic students in these programs lags significantly to the US population percentage.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jcueto&#x2F;race-and-gender-among-computer-science-majors-at-stanford-3824c4062e3a#.kng7b82dw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jcueto&#x2F;race-and-gender-among-computer-sc...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@winniewu&#x2F;race-and-gender-among-computer-science-concentrators-at-harvard-1c1943a20457#.5yszoxbd0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@winniewu&#x2F;race-and-gender-among-computer-...</a>