{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Team & Cross-Functional Panel",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Team & Cross-Functional Panel\n\nMulti-interviewer round assessing collaborative problem solving, code review etiquette, cross-functional communication, and cultural norms.\n\n### Pass Condition\nConsensus score among team panelists meets or exceeds hire recommendation threshold.",
    "aliases": [
      "B-008"
    ],
    "id": "bar.team_cross_functional_panel",
    "type": "barrier",
    "stage": "team",
    "order": 10,
    "precedes": [
      "bar.compensation_levelling_reconciliation"
    ],
    "description": "Multi-interviewer round assessing collaborative problem solving, code review etiquette, cross-functional communication, and cultural norms.",
    "pass_condition": "Consensus score among team panelists meets or exceeds hire recommendation threshold.",
    "evidence_level": "proven",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "note",
        "label": "Panel tally, as submitted",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Panelist 1 — collaboration 4, communication 4: hire",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Panelist 2 — collaboration 4, communication 3: hire",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Panelist 3 — collaboration 3, communication 2: no hire",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Consensus threshold: unanimous, or manager override.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Outcome: not aligned.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The gate is not an average; it is a veto rule. One dissent and a unanimity requirement produce the same result as three dissents."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The panel's score sheets and, in the split case, one dissent with a comment. What that panelist saw arrives second-hand.",
        "reads": "Under a unanimity threshold, one no-hire and three no-hires read the same. The dissent reads as a risk that would be carried alone.",
        "does": "Overrides or closes. The override carries their signature, and so would the hire it produces."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A sequence of separate conversations, each with a person whose weight in the decision is not stated. Then one outcome.",
        "reads": "The round reads as an average of impressions, and the wording of the decline does not distinguish a split panel from a unanimous one.",
        "does": "Cannot tell which conversation the decision turned on, so records who was on the panel and what each of them asked — the only part of this gate still available afterwards."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "The threshold as a configured rule, and the outcome it produced. The individual sheets stay with the team.",
        "reads": "A unanimity requirement reads as consistency across hires and as a defensible record for each one.",
        "does": "Keeps the threshold uniform across teams. The hours a re-run of the loop consumes are not a line in the cycle this layer reports on."
      }
    ]
  }
}