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I was just hired at Amazon as an SDE and found the interview process to be fairly challenging and technical (but what do I know).

I appreciated the fact that a lot of the interview focused on core data structures / algorithms and not languages / frameworks of the moment kind of thing. It caused me to go back through my university books and study a lot of the core concepts that I enjoyed learning and have gotten away from by doing more menial programming tasks (not to say that I won't be don't those sorts of things at the job).

Also, if they said that they wanted to try me out for a couple weeks I would have refused the offer. I already had a job that I was happy (and well paid) at, so why should I leave or take vacation to move across the country and be tried out at another company?