{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Take-Home Evaluation Fatigue & Asymmetry",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Take-Home Evaluation Fatigue & Asymmetry\n\nA 15-hour take-home is reviewed in minutes, and the structure and tests held outside the files that were opened do not reach the assessment.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `noise`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `mech.interview_resource_scheduling_saturation` — Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation\n- Masks `mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall` — Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- A take-home rejection made under evaluation fatigue does not measure the engineering in the submission.",
    "aliases": [
      "M-019"
    ],
    "id": "mech.take_home_evaluation_fatigue_asymmetry",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "A 15-hour take-home is reviewed in minutes, and the structure and tests held outside the files that were opened do not reach the assessment.",
    "operates_at": [
      "bar.take_home_work_sample_evaluation"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "obs.take_home_assignment_exceeding_reasonable_stated_scope",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "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": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
        ],
        "observed_at": [
          "technical"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "noise",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "mech.interview_resource_scheduling_saturation"
    ],
    "masks": [
      "mech.genuine_technical_skill_shortfall"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "note",
        "label": "Review record for a 15-hour submission",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Submission: 41 files, 78 tests, migrations, README with design rationale.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Reviewer time logged: 6 minutes. Files opened: 3.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Note: no tests visible, structure unclear.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The note is false about the submission and true about the review. The asymmetry between the two efforts is the mechanism."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "A submission and a review slot wedged between the team's own delivery work. The rubric is a form with fields for structure, correctness and tests.",
        "reads": "What the opened files show is what the submission shows. Anything held elsewhere in the repository is not part of the assessment being written.",
        "does": "Fills the rubric from what was opened and carries that note into the debrief, where it stands as the account of the whole submission."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A completed rubric and a one-line verdict. The time logged against the review is not in the fields the recruiter reads.",
        "reads": "The panel read the work and the verdict stands for the reading. Nothing in the record separates a thin submission from a thin reading of one.",
        "does": "Sends the rejection in the template wording and closes the record. The review note stays inside the debrief; nothing obliges it to travel further."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "The hours the assignment took, the date it was submitted, and a rejection in standard wording some days later.",
        "reads": "The work was read and found insufficient — the only reading the message supports, since nothing in it separates a person's verdict from a rule's.",
        "does": "There is no named defect to correct. The next assignment is approached the same way, or declined once the unpaid hours are weighed against a process whose state is unknown."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "A take-home rejection made under evaluation fatigue does not measure the engineering in the submission."
    ],
    "agency_zones": {
      "hiring-manager": "high",
      "recruiter": "low",
      "candidate": "low"
    }
  }
}