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  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Hidden Evaluation Rubric or Undisclosed Priority",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Hidden Evaluation Rubric or Undisclosed Priority\n\nThe panel grades the candidate against architectural preferences, internal frameworks and house conventions that were not stated in the posting or in the round.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `bias`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.hiring_manager_consensus_impasse` — Hiring Manager Consensus Impasse\n- Masks `mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall` — Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Not guessing an unstated preference is not a shortfall in core competence.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-010"
    ],
    "id": "mech.hidden_evaluation_rubric_or_undisclosed_priority",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The panel grades the candidate against architectural preferences, internal frameworks and house conventions that were not stated in the posting or in the round.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.technical_screen_live_assessment",
      "bar.hiring_manager_in_depth_review",
      "bar.team_cross_functional_panel"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.explicit_feedback_citing_skill_depth_shortfall",
        "fidelity": "distortion",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "technical"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.conflicting_feedback_across_different_interviewers",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "team"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "bias",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.hiring_manager_consensus_impasse"
    ],
    "masks": [
      "mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "The rubric that was not in the brief",
        "context": "minute 29, design round",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "29:04",
            "text": "I would put a queue between them so the write path stays available if the consumer is down.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "29:12",
            "text": "Mm. We do not use queues here.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "29:18",
            "text": "Is that a constraint I should design within?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "29:21",
            "text": "Just carry on.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A house preference was applied as a grading criterion without being stated as one. The candidate could not have designed to a rule they were not given."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The panel's write-ups, in the vocabulary the team uses for its own systems. What the candidate was sent before the round is not in front of the panel.",
        "reads": "A design that departs from the pattern the team runs on reads as a shortfall in depth, not as a mismatch with a preference. A criterion the team shares is not experienced as a criterion; it is the standard.",
        "does": "Records the objection in the panel's own terms and sets the level from it. The brief for the next candidate is unchanged."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "The questions as they were asked and the reaction in the room, and afterwards a reason stated in general terms.",
        "reads": "The feedback names a shortfall that cannot be checked against the criterion applied, because that criterion was not stated in the round.",
        "does": "Records the exchange and asks in the round whether a stated preference is a constraint to design within. There is no revision available against a rule that was not given."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Not guessing an unstated preference is not a shortfall in core competence."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "hiring-manager": "medium",
      "candidate": "low",
      "recruiter": "high"
    }
  }
}