{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Inflated Requisition Requirements vs Actual Team Needs",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-001"
    ],
    "content": "# Inflated Requisition Requirements vs Actual Team Needs\n\nJob description demands 10+ niche technologies and Staff-level qualifications for a straightforward feature engineering role.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `hiring-manager`\n- **Nature:** `incentive`\n- **Removability:** `intermediary`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `M-008` — Automated Keyword / Qualification Filter\n- Amplifies `M-004` — Unstated Compensation Band Discrepancy\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Failing to meet an inflated \"wishlist\" does not mean candidate cannot excel at the team’s actual core tasks.",
    "id": "M-024",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Job description demands 10+ niche technologies and Staff-level qualifications for a straightforward feature engineering role.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-013",
      "B-002",
      "B-004"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-002",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-004",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-004"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "hiring-manager",
      "nature": "incentive",
      "visibility": "inferable",
      "removability": "intermediary"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "M-008",
      "M-004"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "posting",
        "label": "The posting against the first month of work",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Posting: 10+ years distributed systems, Kubernetes, Kafka, Rust, Go, Terraform, GraphQL, ML serving, on-call leadership, mentoring.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Same team, standup notes from the quarter: CRUD endpoints for the billing dashboard, a report export, two library upgrades.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Both descriptions are of the same role.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The requirement list is a wish, an anchor and a filter at once. It describes the ceiling somebody imagined, not the work in the sprint."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Failing to meet an inflated \"wishlist\" does not mean candidate cannot excel at the team’s actual core tasks."
    ]
  }
}