I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Mumbai) in Oct 2017
Interview
Compensation offered -- 7 lakhs fixed pay per annum (3 lakhs sign on bonus at the end of first year and 2 lakhs bonus at the end of second year)
Job Location -- Bangalore
Name Of Position – Cloud Support Associate (CSA)
Major Interview Topics – Networking (CCENT level),
Operating System (All of it, but very deep in Memory Management),
Coding Questions (DSA in depth)
DBMS (Basics of MySQl and DBMS concepts)
Total Interview Rounds -- 1 (Online Technical Coding Test) + 4(3 Technical and One HR)
Total No. Of Students Recruited from VJTI -- 4(2 from EXTC, 2 from COMPS, 1 from IT)
In a gist, if you are in a hurry and want a short description and suggestions, cover all the CCENT exam networking topics for the interview, go deep down in the Memory Management of Operating Systems (It is the most interesting topic in OS) and be flawless in DSA. Also get familiar with Cloud Computing(AWS related and Virtualization Concepts) for advantage.
No round was completely segregated i.e. each round was a mixture of the above mentioned topics.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Questions on TCP handshake and TCP end connection(troubleshooting scenario based)
Explain DNS short and precisely
Questions on DNS and ARP(troubleshooting scenario based)
OS concepts like Context Switching, Virtual Memory(Its need), etc.
DSA questions on functioning of Priority Queues(discussed a lot on this)
JAVA questions on MultiThreading, Inner Classes and Collections API
Writing a SQL query for a particular given table and Normalization of the same
OS questions on Deadlock and measures to avoid the same
JAVA questions on polymorphism and edge case outputs in method overloading and overriding
And a coding question to be solved under the given complexity constraints.
Windows OS questions followed by a long discussion about Virtual Memory and its requirement (interviewer got impressed by my knowledge on virtual memory considering I’m from EXTC ), File Mgmt. in windows, Data Structures used in Databases(B-Tree and B+ Trees), Paging concepts in depth in Windows(PAE, PD, PDP).
JAVA basic concepts in depth (access modifiers, JVM, other modifiers in java, multithreading).
Algorithm Discussion on A*(I’m lucky I knew this), Dijksta, Prim, Kruskal.
There was 3 rounds lost interview in depth knowledge is good each concept in depth in os networking subnets basic programming is enough to clear interview manager round they ask direct questions if u tell lie they can caught u
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Program questions like string array
Basic on cloud
Os
Networking
The recruiters were helpful and provided insights on what needs to prepared, including a training workshop before interview.The process was easy and consisted of two interviews.First was HR and second was the technical round.The interviewers were helpful during the interview if you get stuck.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About computer science related experience and projects
2 major rounds which there are sub rounds
Based on Computer Networking, operating system and linux
First round is based on MCQs and some behavioural questions after that the major round two is there in which 3 sub rounds is there
1st sub round is based on operating system and linux
2nd sub round is based on Computer Networking
And 3rd sub round is hr and managerial round which is the last round of interview process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basically you should now all the basics of your computer and operating system in your computer or laptop
Cloud Support Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Cloud Support Associate roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 178 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Cloud Support Associate according to 178 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 17%
Skills test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
Background check: 2%
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