{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\nThe candidate’s verified technical execution or domain depth does not meet the established baseline for the role level.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `candidate`\n- **Nature:** `rule`\n- **Removability:** `candidate`\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Rejection does not mean the candidate has no engineering ability, only that the requirement bar was unmet for this specific benchmark.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-001"
    ],
    "id": "mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The candidate’s verified technical execution or domain depth does not meet the established baseline for the role level.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.technical_screen_live_assessment",
      "bar.take_home_work_sample_evaluation",
      "bar.hiring_manager_in_depth_review"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.explicit_feedback_citing_skill_depth_shortfall",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "technical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.generic_closer_alignment_rejection_template",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "technical"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "candidate",
      "nature": "rule",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "candidate"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "proven",
    "honest_baseline": true,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "email",
        "label": "Feedback naming the gap",
        "subject": "Feedback — technical round",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "The panel was positive on communication and on how you structured the problem.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "The gap was concrete: the concurrency exercise needed a bounded worker pool and the submitted solution spawned unbounded goroutines, which the panel would expect to be caught at this level.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "We would genuinely welcome a re-application once that area has had some time.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A named exercise and a named property. This is the shape of feedback that is about the work rather than about fit — rare, and worth keeping."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The panel's written notes against the bar set for this level, and the exercise the notes refer to.",
        "reads": "A gap at this level is something the team carries while it closes. A bad hire is visible for a year and has a name on it; a missed one has neither.",
        "does": "Declines at the level assessed. The panel's specifics stay inside the loop unless they are passed on in a form the recruiter can quote."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "The panel's recommendation and whatever note comes with it, not the scores behind it.",
        "reads": "A decline that has to be worded before the next screen. Whether the reason can be repeated to the candidate depends on the form in which it arrives.",
        "does": "Writes the rejection. Time-to-fill is measured and time-to-clarity is not, so a specific reason reaches the message where a quotable note already exists."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "Either a message naming the exercise and the property that was missed, or a template that names neither.",
        "reads": "A named gap can be checked against the work. A template leaves the bar, the level and the rest of the cohort all unstated.",
        "does": "Records the wording and the date, and can work on the named area. That is the one branch of this the candidate controls."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Rejection does not mean the candidate has no engineering ability, only that the requirement bar was unmet for this specific benchmark."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "hiring-manager": "low",
      "recruiter": "high",
      "candidate": "medium"
    }
  }
}