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"Take-home technical assignment (~4h)"<-- This right here is why senior people aren't interested.

I've got 20 plus years of tech, I've been out of college since 1997 and you want to give a 4 hour homework assignment. If get you want to get a feel for someone's ability but this is more easily done by stating a problem during one of the interviews and asking the person "How would you approach this?" Listing for how they anticipate problems and tradeoffs.

I would love to see another tool like the platinum tech inc "Repository" The tool would scan your C/C++, Fortran and Cobol code AND scan your databases and then allow you do to pretty sophisticated analysis. Such as "If I change the type of this column in my db where will it cascade down in to my code." They were eventually acquired by Computer Associates after I left the org but I've not run into a tool like it since.

This post needs some caveats/updates: 1) You have to enable full disk access to be able to read the db, on Monterey at least. 2) The schema has changed a bit so the queries presented don't work.

In my CTO role, I run into a lot of people who want to integrate with my company. It will certainly help to have a company site and use a company email address to show legitimacy. Have a specific use case in a tailor emails and explain why you want to integrate with my API and why it will benefit my company.