Application submitted, skill test completed. Next step was an assignment (answer a customer service question). I submitted it and asked for their budget for the role because "top of market compensation" doesn't really mean anything when they're advertising in markets like Slovakia, India and the Philippines, and I wanted to know what I was competing for. I'm pretty sure nobody reviewed the assignment because I immediately got 3 disjointed emails in rapid succession following my submission: a request for a call, then 2 hours later a second assignment, and then 2 hours after that the dreaded (and exploitative) salary expectations question. (Still no transparency around pay.) I told them my expectations based on fair market rate and the process ended there. Maybe if you're planning to hire pay the new hire developing economy rates, just say that so everyone else doesn't waste their time applying for this.