Eligibility Criteria and Profile SELECTION PROCESS Important Concepts Details of every round References About the Company
Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce.
It has a history and tradition of leading the world in Web-related technologies and services Amazon operates sites in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, USA and maintains dozens of fulfillment centers around the world. AWS provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure. Amazon India works on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, websites, digital products, services etc. Eligibility Criteria
Eligible branches : ECE ,CSE
Eligibility Criteria : B.E CGPA :6.5 and above with no current Backlogs. No restriction on 10th, 12th or Diploma Scores Job Profile : AWS Cloud Support Associate Work location : Bangalore and Hyderabad Total Compensation : 21.5 lpa (includes RSU and Joining Bonus) 6 month Internship Program with stipend of INR50000. Selection Process
Technical rounds and MR rounds were conducted online on Amazon Chime
Application Each Round is about 45-60 minutes long. Each round is an elimination round There was No particular flow in the interview process. It depends on your performance in each round. Online Round
The First Round of the process is the online round which consists of 4 subparts. 1st subpart – Real Time Implementation of Work Environment where graphs regarding server details and other information is provided and the candidate is given a work flow based on which the candidate must take further decisions on how to troubleshoot the assigned problem , questions regarding priority assignment and Troubleshooting are the major part of this round 2nd Subpart – 20 MCQ’s on Networking Concepts like HTML,TCP/IP and other basic concepts. 3rd Subpart – Adding Information regarding subjects and software's that the candidate is comfortable using with a scale rating the depth of knowledge in the respective field.(Be honest about the subjects that you select and the scale at which you rate yourself during this process) 4rth Subpart- Behavioural Questions assessing your problem solving and pressure handling skills based on your personality (Answer according to amazon’s 16 principle )
No negative marking for any section , the first round is also the most important where most candidates applying are filtered for the further interviews.(Out of 850+ applicants only 132 where selected for further rounds and 40(14 ECE and 26 CSE )students where selected for the role) Technical Round –I (OS)
The First Technical Round was based on LINUX/Windows OS (Option
to choose between one was provided, I chose to go with Windows) , Windows commands used for Troubleshooting and file operations The Interviewers are very nice and make sure that a comfortable environment during the interview is created to allow the candidate to perform his/her best. The answers you provide decide the flow of the interview (Each question is layered and will have multiple follow up questions along with it based on real time examples) The Approach to the problem matters and follow up questions are appreciated . Questions asked in Round 1(OS) What are process attributes and where they are stored. What are various process states. What is context switching. What Is multiprocessing? What is Memory management unit. What is fragmentation and its type. What is paging and why it is needed. A question on paging, you have 100 mb of space and you have 20 process 5 mb each, process 1 and process 20 is completed so that space is freed, can you execute a new process of 10 mb? What is a thread and it’s example. Explain booting process. What is segmentation. Difference between paging and segmentation. What do you mean by i5 or i7 processor. Show task manager in your computer and explain what it signifies. How can you schedule a job in your laptop. If your laptop is hanging what will you do? Difference between buffer and cache. Basic Coding question: Add two numbers without using an operator. A situation where you worked hard and dived deep into the problem and still wasn’t able to solve it. Other Important Topics for Round - I OS: Deadlock and semaphores CPU Scheduling Managing Users and groups File permissions Managing software’s - installation, uninstallation, upgrade etc. Managing system services and background processes. What is RAID. What are types of process schedulers. Troubleshooting: System performance - CPU, DISK, memory and network System Login issues System booting issues System logs Network connectivity issues Technical Round – II (CN) The 2nd Technical Round was completely based on networking. Explain all the osi layers with it’s function, features and protocol with examples. What is the process that happens in the backend when you enter amazon.com in a browser (DHCP,DNS,TCP , HTTP explain the entire flow in detail) Explain dhcp dora process in detail. Explain NTP , ICMP , ARP protocols. Explain three way handshake. What in FIN. Explain transport layer protocol and which is better and why? Name network layer protocols. Difference between http and https and their port numbers. What is telnet, DNS. What is SSH and it’s working. What is NAT. Private and public ip address. Can we access internet using private ip address? Can we have multiple mac addresses? Site can’t be reached error.
Suggestion – Make sure you know examples regarding to the protocols you talk about and understand their functioning as questions are based on real time examples and aren’t direct (tweaked according to a situation) Other Important Topics for Round-II
Networking: Difference between router, switch. What is a Broadcast Domain? DNS – detailed explanation. TCP/UDP and why? Sub netting MSS/MTU Flow/error control Broadcast domain and collision domain. Managerial Round
Questions in the Managerial Round are to be answered according to the STAR
format(Situation/Task/Action/Result ) Try bringing the amazon leadership principles in your answer as much as possible indirectly .
1.Tell Me about yourself and your family.
2.Asked me regarding my projects. 3.Assume there is a weak link (member) in your team how will you act in this situation. 4.Tell me about a time where you had to make a submission within a very tight deadline. 5. Tell me about a time when you were supposed to do something but you did more than that. 6. Tell me about a time when you helped your team mate who was struggling with completion of work. 7. What does amazon logo mean. 8. Any questions for me, be ready to ask few good questions.
Suggestion – Take your time to come up with a solution in accordance with the question asked and don’t rush to answer (try talking about situations that are a part of your personal experience so that you are comfortable talking about it and try talking about your extracurricular examples than talking about your projects to leave a lasting impression) IMPORTANT Points for Managerial Round Suggestions: A tricky round where your sense of judgement ,communication and how you handle pressure is tested. Questions can get personal but don’t fail to answer with confidence as no answer is either right or wrong but it reflects who you are as a person. HR manager will be very experienced, so try not to bluff in any part of your answer and be yourself. Don’t be in a hurry to answer the questions. Get involved, understand the scenario you are being put in, take a deep breathe and prefer a discussions over single line answers. Make sure to convey that you really want this job and you have worked for it. Don’t LIE on your resume as most questions during the Managerial Roun d will be from it. Points to Remember
Its an Off Campus drive (Pool of Colleges)
• This interview is different from all other company interviews in college. • Go through the 16 leadership principles of amazon https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles • Their objective is to select a person who is good in Coding, OS, Networks and Troubleshooting. • Practice writing code on paper. because writing code on paper and typing on laptop is very different. • Number of openings in Amazon does not matter for you to get selected. They select according to the quality of your performance. • 2 or more solutions for each problem is expected Points to remember
Go through the list of topics to prepare sent by HR.
Be thorough with your projects. Keep in mind 2 or 3 technologies you are interested in working on. Make sure your computer networking, OS and linux/windows basics are strong and you’re good at programming. Study more on the company, role and their leadership principles. Be confident ALL THE BEST!! and feel free to contact me on the Email ID provided if you face any roadblocks while preparing for the Interview. References To study from
Computer Networking and operating system from javatpoint.
Watch lectures of networking and os by gate smasher. LINUX Commands On Geeks for Geeks Placement Preparation Course on GFG for Coding Practice Competitive coding on Leetcode / Hackerrank / Codechef.
