Placement Papers - AMDOCS

AMDOCS- SRCOEM - Nagpur, May 16th 2012.

Hi All, Amdocs visited our campus on 14th May 2012. First of all, there was an online test conducted by MeritTrac on 12th May 2012 and then results were declared on 14th.

The details of the Online test:
1) Total questions - 95.
2) Total time - 115 minutes.
3) Sections.

I) Analytical:

- Quantitative - 20 questions.
- Learning Ability (Logical) - 15 questions.
- Technical Passage - 10 questions.

II) Technical:

- C/C++/Java - 20 questions.
- SQL - 15 questions.
- Unix - 15 questions.

4) No negative marking.
5) 60% Cutoff in both sections.

Guys' analytical section was very easy and required a day of preparation only. Technical Passage was very easy where a passage related 2 computer terminology was given. Most of the questions can be solved directly for the rest go through the passage fast. Don't waste time in this.

But the technical section was tough. Choose any language from C/C++/Java and this section will really test your programming skills and concepts. If you are choosing C then go through pointers very well. OOPS concepts must be very clear if you are choosing Java or C++. Then comes the SQL section. Some of the questions were so difficult that even I hadn't heard some of them.

Practice your queries like subqueries, and joins, concepts like views, indexes, and database terminologies must be clear. Keep some extra time for this section as there were some questions where some queries were given and you have to find errors or select the best query. At last, there was Unix. Go through some of the basic commands like cat, tee, chmod, grep etc along with their attributes. This section was easy if you are comfortable with all the basic commands. Go through VI editor and its commands, 3-4 questions from it must be there.

After 2 days i.e. on the 14th results were declared and out of around 150 students only 12 cleared the aptitude. So a lot of focus is given 2 aptitudes, so practice hard. Then TI and HR interviews was there. Check the company profile and they can also ask questions based on that. Guys if you clear the aptitude then be cool because 70% of the battle has been won. The TI of mine was very cool. It went on for around 1 hour and he basically asked some of the basics of SQL like a foreign key, basic query, normalization etc and basic commands of unix.

Whatever language you have selected in aptitude, he will ask questions based on that. So choose carefully. Guys be prepared with your project what you have done because they focus a lot on your project. After that, my HR interview was a basic one like Tell me about yourself, hobbies, career objective, relocation, working night shifts, achievements etc. Don't take HR lightly.

Finally, only 4 were selected and I was one of them. Guys 1 thing I want to tell you is that AMDOCS is really a very good company with a lot of opportunities. They offered us a package of 3.5 PA there is a yearly performance bonus of around 1 lakh. So guys prepare yourself very well and see you in AMDOCS. Feel free 2 get back 2 me with any queries.

All the Best.
Sachendra Pal.