Spoke with a recruiter took a test; I abandoned the test. "The medium is the massage." Calendly sent me two pokes to confirm; Calendly has never poked me before. I think we can conclude this is something you turn on, rather than off. The (web based) test software made me agree to accept tracking software from five vendors. I sent a note asking if they thought this was ethical and there was no reply. It took full screen and wanted the camera and microphone. One question was a "can you follow written instructions" question which had nothing particular to do with python. The second question was a number of multiple choice questions about a particular library, and if I'd been using that library in the last month it would have been doable off the top of my head although normally I keep the documentation at hand. This library or a specific use case requiring detailed knowledge of it was not called out in the job ad or by the recruiter. I concluded none of this was good and abandoned the process.