Artifact: Structured Hiring Debrief — Candidate Taylor

A structured hiring debrief scoring a candidate against role-specific signals -- exercises co-16. Everline and every name here are fictional; every quote is an illustrative, constructed example.

Signal	Evidence from the loop	Score (1-4)
Systems-design judgment	In the design round, Taylor correctly identified that the proposed schema would create a hot partition under the stated load, and proposed two concrete alternatives with trade-offs, unprompted.	4 -- strong, unprompted evidence
Debugging rigor	In the debugging exercise, Taylor formed and tested three hypotheses in order of likelihood before finding the root cause, narrating the reasoning throughout.	4 -- strong, unprompted evidence
Collaboration under disagreement	When the interviewer pushed back on Taylor's first design choice, Taylor asked a clarifying question, then revised the proposal rather than defending the original -- but this only showed up once, in one round.	3 -- solid, but only one observed instance

Overall recommendation: hire -- two of three signals show strong, unprompted evidence across multiple rounds; the third shows one clean instance but wasn't tested more than once.