I would like to share my Internship Interview Experience at Avaya 2021. This was an off-campus opportunity for 3 months internship. It had 3 rounds. I applied through their global jobs portal. People say off-campus selection is a skill!
Total Duration: 30 Days
Round 1(Coding Round): This round was conducted on the TestGorilla platform, it had 5 sections. These sections were as follows:
- Time Management Questions: Easy section but one has to think properly and answer.
- Communication Skills and Behavioral Questions: Again easy section but one has to think properly and answer.
- Advanced Queries on DBMS: Here I was given some database tables and had to write few advanced queries for performing operations. I solved it.
- Programming Question in JavaScript: which I was not able to solve completely, as I was not familiar with JS syntax and no language change was allowed.
- Programming Question in Python: Being using python widely, I solved it quite faster.
This lasted around 90 minutes. (I don’t remember exactly)
Round 2(Technical Interview): The interviewer asked about my previous internships and projects in great depth.
- There were many machine learning and web-development questions as I had most things based on these in my resume.
- He asked me some algorithms, some questions on operating systems and most questions were on computer networks. This was the toughest round according to me.
- It lasted for around 35 minutes.
Tip: Most of the time it happens that there are things we know, but can not put in a proper way to explain, one has to take care of this.
Within a week I got an email for HR Round, I was super happy.
Round 3(HR & Management Round): All the questions here were behavioral questions and some situations were given.
- I was asked what would I do, etc.
- Other questions included strengths, weaknesses, dream company, etc.
- The interviewer was from Singapore and was super polite, he did not make me feel as if it was an interview but just small talk.
Tip: Focus on behavioral questions if you aren’t more familiar with them.
It lasted for exactly 27 minutes.
Result: Selected
After a week, I heard back! I was so happy knowing I will be interning at such a product-based company in my third year from tier-2 college. I received a call from the ASEAN Avaya team from the Philippines regarding the responsibilities, compensation, my reporting headquarter (I worked with Singapore team ) and other things. The best thing was they selected only 2 candidates from south Asian region, and I was one of them!
Hope you find this helpful. All the very best!