{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-001"
    ],
    "content": "# Interview Resource & Scheduling Saturation\n\nEngineering interviewers are overwhelmed with sprint commitments, leading to calendar fragmentation, rush reviews, or dropped loops.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `noise`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `M-019` — Take-Home Evaluation Fatigue & Asymmetry\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Rescheduling is an operational issue and does not indicate negative evaluation.",
    "id": "M-012",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Engineering interviewers are overwhelmed with sprint commitments, leading to calendar fragmentation, rush reviews, or dropped loops.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-005",
      "B-007",
      "B-008"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-007",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-001",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "noise",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "M-019"
    ],
    "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."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Rescheduling is an operational issue and does not indicate negative evaluation."
    ]
  }
}