I was cold called via an old resume. Rather than go into the resume the recruiter very apologetically told me that the first step was a code test. I normally don't accept those anymore at this point in my career, but she said it was 70min, but recommended I read the questions first and just skip it if I didn't like it. Lot of red flags when the recruiter seems to think the process is rubbish. First question was word salad that took five minutes to read, but relatively easy. However, a bunch of tests failed requiring re-reading for a bunch of nuance. 20min gone. Second question was simply gibberish. Third was the most concise, but would also have taken twenty minutes to write. The fourth was mostly useless narrative and I didn't bother tying to figure out what the problem itself was. It definitely seemed like a random grab bag of two-hour questions jammed into 70min. Any company that gates their senior positions like this deserves what they get (cheaters).