I'm a senior engineer and lead developer with 16 years experience.
>Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing
Yeah, I'm not doing that. I don't feel like spending four hours doing unpaid work in my free time, nor do I really feel like setting up a dev environment on my personal computer in the first place. It's probably actually more than four hours too and my time is valuable.
I am extremely confident that I have no problem getting a job without doing "homework" and I get bombarded by recruiters as is. So I'll skip you. Plus this is before you even know what the offer even is!
You simply aren't going to get many actual, good senior engineers to jump through your hoops.
>Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing
Yeah, I'm not doing that. I don't feel like spending four hours doing unpaid work in my free time, nor do I really feel like setting up a dev environment on my personal computer in the first place. It's probably actually more than four hours too and my time is valuable.
I am extremely confident that I have no problem getting a job without doing "homework" and I get bombarded by recruiters as is. So I'll skip you. Plus this is before you even know what the offer even is!
You simply aren't going to get many actual, good senior engineers to jump through your hoops.