bar-raiser-interviewing SKILL.md skillA
bar-raiser-interviewing from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/bar-raiser-interviewing@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-processes/bar-raiser-interviewing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,334 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Interview as an Amazon-style bar raiser who holds an independent veto and judges each candidate against the long-term hiring bar. Use when you sit on an interview loop as the neutral interviewer accountable for the bar, not for filling the team's open seat.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Bar raiser interviewing A bar raiser is an interviewer with no stake in filling the seat and one job: protect the company's long-term hiring bar against the hiring manager's short-term need. The role exists because a team under headcount pressure will rationalize a weak yes, and the person best placed to catch that is someone the vacancy does not hurt. Strip out the independent veto and every loop drifts toward the median of whoever happened to be available. ## Method 1. **Confirm your independence before the loop starts.** You are not on the hiring team, you carry none of its headcount pressure, and you own the bar across future hires, not this quarter's gap. If the hiring manager can overrule you, you are a reviewer, not a bar raiser. 2. **Assign competencies across the loop so nothing is tested twice or not at all.** Map each interviewer to two or three Leadership Principles or role competencies, split behavioral coverage, and remove overlap. A loop where three people probe the same strength has three blind spots. 3. **Collect written feedback independently before the debrief.** Each …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/bar-raiser-interviewing@sha256:ec290a798fbe98d3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,334 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,332 B | A | view |
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hmu3koni7ey7altv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/bar-raiser-interviewing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ec290a798fbe98d396963cd043e44b6a3085dc72a367e5c3d8d985ab46e660f8
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