Get rid of the take home work and and presentation. If you want senior or staff engineers their resume and a series of human conversations with whoever the stak

Get rid of the take home work and and presentation. If you want senior or staff engineers their resume and a series of human conversations with whoever the stakeholders are should tell everybody everything they need to know. Your process seems more like you're looking for new grads with little or no experience. Almost as if you're ignoring all their past experience and wanting them to start all over again. In short: Most mid to upper level engineers don't have copious amounts of free time to spend on maybes. There are too many better options for them out there.