{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Explicit feedback citing skill-depth shortfall",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.employment_interview_reliability_new_meta_analytic_estimates_by_structure_and_format"
    ],
    "content": "# Explicit feedback citing skill-depth shortfall\n\nInterviewer or recruiter provides structured notes citing a specific deficit in algorithmic complexity, architecture, or tool mastery.\n\n### Diagnostic Non-Inferences\n- Does not imply general incompetence; it reflects the threshold for this specific role level.",
    "aliases": [
      "A-008"
    ],
    "id": "obs.explicit_feedback_citing_skill_depth_shortfall",
    "type": "observation",
    "summary": "Interviewer or recruiter provides structured notes citing a specific deficit in algorithmic complexity, architecture, or tool mastery.",
    "stages": [
      "technical",
      "team"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "probes": [
      {
        "id": "PROBE-A-008-1",
        "action": "Review the interview solution against the standard patterns for that problem and identify the edge cases it misses.",
        "expected_signal": "Verifies whether the code actually lacked the optimisation or rigour the notes name.",
        "cost": "medium",
        "outcomes": [
          {
            "id": "feedback-matches-the-code",
            "label": "The solution has the property the feedback names, and the approach it expected is a standard pattern for that problem.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "expectation-is-local",
            "label": "The solution has the property the feedback names, and the approach it expected is specific to one stack or house pattern rather than a general one.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "feedback-misdescribes-the-code",
            "label": "The solution does not have the property the feedback names — the code already does what the notes say was missing.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          },
          {
            "id": "nothing-retained",
            "label": "Nothing was retained from the exercise — a shared editor closed, a whiteboard erased — so the claim cannot be checked against anything.",
            "excludes": [],
            "because": ""
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "email",
        "label": "Structured feedback notes",
        "subject": "Feedback — technical panel",
        "context": "day 3 after the panel",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "The panel was positive on system decomposition and on how you reasoned about failure modes.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "The gap was in the second exercise: the solution was correct but quadratic, and the panel was looking for the linear approach using a hash index. We would want to see that reached without prompting at this level.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "We are not moving forward now, but this was close and we would welcome a re-application in six months.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A named exercise, a named property, a named expectation. This is the rare rejection that is actually actionable."
      },
      {
        "kind": "transcript",
        "label": "The moment in the panel",
        "context": "minute 38, second exercise",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "38:04",
            "text": "This works. What is the complexity?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "38:11",
            "text": "Quadratic — nested scan over the same list.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "38:15",
            "text": "Right. Can you get it down?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "38:22",
            "text": "Probably with an index of some kind. I would want to think about it.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Interviewer",
            "at": "38:40",
            "text": "That is fine, let us move on for time.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The transcript and the written feedback agree. When they agree, the feedback is describing something that actually happened."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "A rejection that names the exercise, the property of the solution and the expectation for the level, together with a stated window for re-application.",
        "reads": "A threshold for this level in one named place, which is a claim that can be checked against what happened in the room.",
        "does": "Checks the claim against their own record of the panel, and works from the two facts given: the named gap and the named window."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.hiring_manager",
        "sees": "The panel's write-ups against the rubric, including the exercise where the step to the linear solution came after a prompt.",
        "reads": "Evidence about the bar for the level rather than about the person; a decline can be revisited in six months and a hire cannot.",
        "does": "Declines for now, keeps the exercise and the property in the notes, and leaves the re-application open."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A recommendation with a written reason attached to it, and none of the scoring that stands behind the reason.",
        "reads": "A reason specific enough to send as written; the field it arrived in is free text, so what is in it is what the panel typed there.",
        "does": "Sends the reason in the panel's own terms and adds the re-application window, and cannot expand on it if asked, because the scoring did not travel with it."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not imply general incompetence; it reflects the threshold for this specific role level."
    ]
  }
}