I have done a few of these types of interviews. It's incredibly awkward. At one place, I was even issued a laptop, a badge and added to the Github organization.

I have done a few of these types of interviews. It's incredibly awkward. At one place, I was even issued a laptop, a badge and added to the Github organization. I mean, I guess? But it felt like I was starting work, not doing an interview. People there also didn't know if I was a new employee or who I was when I went to lunch and get snacks. I spent more time getting my local dev up and running than actually doing the task I was assigned, which they could have gathered the same information about me in a 30 minute interview. If you can't determine from a few interviews you want to hire me or not, it's a no from me. It's a HUGE red flag if an employer can't seem to make up their mind so they have to resort to awkward "test drives" like this. If you have a job at the time already, it also makes it almost impossible to pull off without using PTO. Add all these things together and you really don't want to work for a company who is very inexperienced in hiring such that they resort to tests like these. It shows they don't know how to interview, are not efficient with your time (and probably their time also), and a high chance they are non-technical.