About a week after applying for the role I got an email from HR asking if I could come down in my salary requirements by 20% - which was fine. After I agreed to that and before any screener interview was conducted I was assigned an assessment. The assessment - which I didn't mind at first - turned out to be building out a full content calendar inclusive of writing an entire blog post for the next month and a half (oh and they wanted it completed within 24 hours!). Had I already had a phone interview I don't think the assessment would have bothered me so much but it gave me a bad vibe (as if I was supplementing the work for a role that was currently unfulfilled).