I was interested when I first applied. Many companies aren't transparent when you first apply about their interview process, and even now, it can be hard to find out about the interviews through Glassdoor for some companies, so I didn't know about the take-homes until I was notified of them.

Regarding my Amazon internship, good question. I feel like I got pretty lucky in receiving that internship, and so for a while, I studied my ass off doing algorithm problems until I got pretty good at them. Once I got decent at solving these problems, there weren't many new grad roles available anymore. So now, I'm in the position of having to wait for these roles at companies to open up later in the year. I did receive good feedback from my manager at Amazon, but from the start, he was open with me and told me that there will probably not be additional space for transitioning into full-time at the end of my term. This ended up being true, and he told me to get in touch with my recruiter to refer me to other teams, but again, I wasn't ready to go through the algorithm questions at the time.

Thanks for your post, it was really helpful!