{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Explicit feedback citing skill-depth shortfall",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-006"
    ],
    "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; reflects threshold for this specific role level.",
    "id": "A-008",
    "type": "artifact",
    "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 interview problem solution against industry standard patterns and identify edge cases missed.",
        "expected_signal": "Verifies whether candidate code truly lacked required optimization or rigor.",
        "cost": "medium"
      }
    ],
    "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."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not imply general incompetence; reflects threshold for this specific role level."
    ]
  }
}