{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation\n\nEngineering interviewers carry sprint commitments alongside the panels they sit on, and rounds are moved, read cold, or dropped.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `noise`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.take_home_evaluation_fatigue_asymmetry` — Take-Home Evaluation Fatigue & Asymmetry\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Rescheduling is an operational fact and does not indicate a negative evaluation.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-012"
    ],
    "id": "mech.interview_resource_scheduling_saturation",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Engineering interviewers carry sprint commitments alongside the panels they sit on, and rounds are moved, read cold, or dropped.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.technical_screen_live_assessment",
      "bar.hiring_manager_in_depth_review",
      "bar.team_cross_functional_panel"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.multiple_interview_reschedulings_or_interviewer_no_show",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "technical",
          "team"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "obs.complete_silence_after_submission",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "ingestion"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "noise",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.take_home_evaluation_fatigue_asymmetry"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Inside the interviewer calendar",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Engineering manager",
            "at": "Wed 17:40",
            "text": "Can you take the panel Thursday? Nobody else on the team is free.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "Wed 17:52",
            "text": "I am on release duty and I have not read the take-home. I can do it but it will be a cold read.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Engineering manager",
            "at": "Wed 17:55",
            "text": "Take it. We are already two weeks over on this req.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The evaluation was compromised before it began, and nothing in the candidate could have changed that. This trace lives on the other side of the table."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The same engineers' calendars carrying the sprint and the panel, and a requisition running past its target date. What the loop costs the people covering the open work is not in that view.",
        "reads": "An interviewer who is free is the option that keeps the loop moving; the alternative is another week on the requisition. A cold read is still a round completed.",
        "does": "Puts whoever has the slot on the panel and takes the write-up that comes back."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "Rounds moved, gaps between them, and an interviewer opening the submitted work during the call.",
        "reads": "The changes are visible only through their own calendar, where a scheduling constraint and a decline in interest look alike.",
        "does": "Records each date and each change, asks what remains in the loop and by when, and keeps other processes live."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "Panel slots that come back unfilled and dates that shift; the interviewers' other commitments sit on the calendars the recruiter is scheduling around.",
        "reads": "A move is an operational fact with a date, and time-to-fill is measured on the total. There is nothing in it to report about the candidate's standing.",
        "does": "Reissues the invitation with the new date and decides whether the candidate is told the loop has stalled."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Rescheduling is an operational fact and does not indicate a negative evaluation."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "hiring-manager": "high",
      "candidate": "low",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "employer-policy": "high"
    }
  }
}