[anon50118810]

I appreciate the instinct to try to help me personally, but as I said in another comment I'm keeping a lot back for privacy reasons so it's difficult for me to engage in that sort of discussion. There are issues with my overall situation that make job searching difficult, which I won't share, going beyond tweaking things, which is why I've asked for help identifying, basically, boring unprestigious developer jobs where I might have a better chance.

I've generally looked at smaller employers with simple applications that I assume go either to an internal recruiter or the technical team. I don't think these are situations where there's a need to bypass a lot of bureaucracy.

Deliberately searching for lower pay is a good idea if done carefully. If it's too low then the job might be abusive or not actually a software developer role. Maybe $80k is the floor depending on industry and location. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the major job sites let you search that way, but I might be able to figure something out.