Sunday 18 June 2017

Amazon Interview Tips

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Founder(s): Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos (Chairman, President and CEO)
Werner Vogels (CTO)
Andrew Jassy (CEO, AWS)
Jeff Wilke (CEO, Consumer)

                          
                                   AMAZON PLACEMENT TIPS

About Amazon: 

Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington.

 It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, book downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics etc 

 The company also produces consumer electronics-notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). 

Selection Process:

Amazon conducts recruitment process every year to select new candidates. The selection process of the company consists of 3-4 rounds. 

These rounds are as follows:
  
 Written Exam
Technical Interview (Project Based )
Technical Interview(Subject Knowledge )
HR Interview

Academic Criteria:

60 percent throughout (Class X, XII and Graduation).
Education gap of not more than one year.

Pattern of Written Exam:

The Amazon.com written test pattern is sub-divided in the following sections:

Number of Questions=22
Aptitude & Reasoning/Technical=20
Programming=2

The total time allotted to the written exam is 90 minutes. There is no negative marking in the paper.

Technical section consists of o/p, complexity, Data structures, Algorithms, C language, DBMS and Operating system.

Aptitude section consists of questions from aptitude basic permutation combination, probability.
Verbal section consists of questions from sentence rearrangement, sentence correction and reading comprehension.

Coding section consists of questions from Tree and Graph Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Backtracking, Greedy Algorithms etc. These are always the hot topics for interviews at these companies.

Practice MCQs from GeeksQuiz so that you are easily able to solve the first 20 questions as fast as possible. Apart from that, go through the book, cracking the Coding Interview. Since, you have less time, its better to directly read the solutions than trying to solve them on your own.

One advice, do the MCQs before attempting the programming questions. Make sure u do them quickly and answer as many correct as possible. It shouldn't take you over 20 minutes to solve all the MCQs. Then attempt the coding questions.

For coding practice online you can checkout HackerEarth - Programming challenges and Developer jobs, Geeksforgeeks, LeetCode and HackerRank.

Overall the level of the paper is easy to moderate. Only those candidates who clear the written exam will qualify for the next round.

*The Company reserves the right to make changes in the written exam.
                                                                                                                

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Mr. Tribikram Pradhan
Research Scholar, Dept. of CSE
Indian Institute of Technology, (BHU), Varanasi
E-Mail:  tribikram14@gmail.com                                                                      

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