Headcount & Executive Budget Approval

Formal sign-off by department leadership, finance, and talent committee to commit budget for the written offer.

Passing Condition: Active headcount requisition is formally certified and unblocked by financial leadership.

Preceded By (Inbound Gates):

Precedes (Outbound Gates):

Mechanisms Operating at this Gate (2)

Candidate cleared all passing bars, but another applicant in the same pipeline demonstrated superior domain overlap or lower onboarding overhead.

Executive leadership or finance halts all new hires across division due to macroeconomic factors or revenue shifts mid-interview process.

Machine-readable static endpoint: /api/v1/barriers/B-010.json