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Build the loop: 10-minute clock

Start at the first move in "Build the loop: 10-minute clock" and carry it through to the proof.

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Build the loop: 10-minute clocknarrate as you place each block

  1. 1Convert to one zone first. Pin everything to ET, the office zone, and translate the PT interviewer's 12:30 ET floor to 9:30 PT so you never quote a wrong number. Write the candidate's home zone next to her name so the invite shows both.
  2. 2Place the hard constraints before the easy ones. The PT interviewer can only land after 12:30 ET and the HM is blocked from 13:00 to 14:00. Solve those two against each other first, then fill recruiter and lunch around the gaps.
  3. 3Leave a gap between interviews. Give the candidate 10 to 15 minutes between interviews to breathe and give a slow interviewer room to wrap. Lunch may run flush against its neighbors, but make it a real one that she doesn't eat alone at a laptop.
  4. 4Assign rooms and Zoom explicitly. In-person slots get a room name; the PT interviewer's slot gets a Zoom link in the invite and on the itinerary so nobody hunts for it at 12:45.
  5. 5Write the candidate itinerary last. One clean schedule showing her home zone and ET, with names, roles, whether each slot is in person or Zoom, where to physically be and your phone number for day-of.
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Advanced table

Reference table

ET slot
10:00 to 10:45
Interview
Recruiter sync
Who / zone
Recruiter, ET
Format
In-person, Room A
ET slot
11:00 to 12:00
Interview
Hiring manager
Who / zone
HM, ET
Format
In-person, Room A
ET slot
12:00 to 12:45
Interview
Lunch host
Who / zone
You + candidate
Format
In-person
ET slot
12:45 to 13:45
Interview
Cross-functional
Who / zone
PT interviewer, 9:45 PT
Format
Zoom, link in invite
ET slot
14:00 to 15:00
Interview
Cross-functional
Who / zone
ET interviewer
Format
In-person, Room A

The PT floor of 12:30 ET and the HM's block from 13:00 to 14:00 are both respected, and lunch falls where the morning ends.

The curveball: recover live

Mid-drill, the ET cross-functional interviewer at 14:00 drops with a production incident. Surface two or three options fast. One: swap in a pre-cleared backup interviewer for the same 14:00 slot. Two: move the recruiter sync into the open 14:00 slot and start the candidate's day at 11:00 so the four-interview loop stays back-to-back, which costs her a later arrival and a changed invite in both zones. Three, if no backup exists: hold the three confirmed interviews and offer a short Zoom finish the next morning rather than stretching her travel day. State the tradeoff of each in one sentence and recommend one.