Amdocs visited our campus Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh in September 2022 for full-time roles and I was one of the fortunate people to get selected
Selection Process
The process consisted of three rounds:-
- Online Assessment
- Technical Interview
- HR Round
- Online Assessment(Medium)
The round had three DSA Questions from easy to medium difficulty and were to be done in 120 minutes.
Online Assessment
- The concepts involved were Arrays and Strings.
- The first question was an easy problem and required simple for loop and if else conditions.
- The second question was related to a medium Dynamic Programming problem on strings which I solved easily since I had done it before.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly the third problem but it was a difficult one on prime numbers and could not solve it
Cleared the Online Assessment and got the call for the interview.
Technical Interview(Easy-Medium)
The interview lasted more than an hour and covered various topics ranging from Data structures to my projects in my resume and then SQL queries.
I was asked to implement a linked list from scratch and then the interviewer had a follow-up question about changing the data type of the list which I did easily but the interviewer tried to trick me into an edge case that I could not solve to the best of my abilities but yes I was not very worried since I had done the coding and successfully executed most of the test cases that he gave.
Next, he asked me about the projects I had added about working on the front end so he asked me to create a text box and add some CSS to it which I did and then he asked me some questions about Django which I had worked on during my internship.
The interviewer then asked me how would debug code at an enterprise level which we discussed I told them about logs which he did not seem to be very satisfied about but I tried my best to answer his question based on the development I had done.
I encountered two SQL queries of medium difficulty which I wrote in the Google Meet itself and he asked about how they were working.
To conclude the interview he asked me some questions on the programming language C++ which I had mentioned in my resume such as singleton classes, final keywords and dangling pointers which I could not answer.
At the end of the interview, I was feeling a little nervous due to some unanswered questions but I got a call for the HR interview.
HR round(Basic)
A short round in which she asked me about my strengths, and weaknesses reason for joining Amdocs and my location preference to which I was very honest.
Tips:
- Solve at least 10–20 problems on each data structure and know how to implement them you never know which one they ask you to implement in the interview.
- For online Assessments make sure you can solve easy problems and standard Medium level problems and practice consistently on Geeks for Geeks to improve your problem-solving
- Don’t get discouraged if you are unable to answer the questions in the interview answer the one you know confidently and do not carry the nervousness of not answering a specific question to the further questions.
- Do not put anything on the Resume that you have not worked on since interviewers are smart and it would not be in your favour if they ask in-depth questions about the project and eventually would leave a very bad impression of you on the interviewer.
- For HM rounds prepare the standard questions such as strengths, and weaknesses tell me a time when you led a team, and mention a time in which you delivered under strict deadlines. Preparing them beforehand will give you the confidence to answer them at the moment and not think a lot in front of the interviewer.
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