{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Experience-Age Impossibility",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-001"
    ],
    "content": "# Experience-Age Impossibility\n\nRequisition requires more years of hands-on experience in a specific framework or tool than that technology has existed in the open-source ecosystem.\n\n### Trigger Rule\nJob description or automated screen requires X years of experience where X > technology_age.\n\n### What this Establishes\n- Job description was authored without technical review, using copy-paste templates with automated gating rules.\n\n### What this Does NOT Establish\n- Does not imply technical team is incompetent, only that HR screening pipeline lacks technical validation.",
    "id": "P-003",
    "type": "pattern",
    "summary": "Requisition requires more years of hands-on experience in a specific framework or tool than that technology has existed in the open-source ecosystem.",
    "required_artifacts": [
      "A-002",
      "A-009"
    ],
    "compatible_mechanisms": [
      "M-008",
      "M-024"
    ],
    "trigger_rule": "Job description or automated screen requires X years of experience where X > technology_age.",
    "establishes": [
      "Job description was authored without technical review, using copy-paste templates with automated gating rules."
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Does not imply technical team is incompetent, only that HR screening pipeline lacks technical validation."
    ],
    "interventions": [
      "I-005"
    ],
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "posting",
        "label": "The requirement, as published",
        "subject": "Senior Platform Engineer — requirements",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "7+ years of production experience with Kubernetes.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "5+ years with a framework first released three years ago.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Screening is automated: applications below the stated year counts are filtered before human review.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "This is checkable against a release date, which makes it one of the few claims in hiring that can simply be false rather than debatable."
      },
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "What the filter did with it",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "00:00:04",
            "text": "Application submitted",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "00:00:05",
            "text": "Rule: years_with_framework >= 5 — candidate value 3 — FAIL",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "00:00:05",
            "text": "Status: Rejected — does not meet minimum criteria",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "No one decided anything about this candidate. An impossible threshold was copied into a rule and the rule ran."
      }
    ]
  }
}