{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Hidden Evaluation Rubric or Undisclosed Priority",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-006"
    ],
    "content": "# Hidden Evaluation Rubric or Undisclosed Priority\n\nThe interview team grades candidate against specific undisclosed architectural dogmas, internal frameworks, or unwritten biases.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `bias`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `M-022` — Hiring Manager Consensus Impasse\n- Masks `M-001` — Genuine Technical Skill Shortfall\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Failure to guess unstated preferences is not equivalent to lack of core competence.",
    "id": "M-010",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "The interview team grades candidate against specific undisclosed architectural dogmas, internal frameworks, or unwritten biases.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-005",
      "B-007",
      "B-008"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-008",
        "fidelity": "distortion",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-006"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-014",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-006"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "bias",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "M-022"
    ],
    "masks": [
      "M-001"
    ],
    "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 told."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Failure to guess unstated preferences is not equivalent to lack of core competence."
    ]
  }
}