Technical Interview

The technical interview is of about 30 minutes and make sure you have studied well. A good
knowledge of UNIX and C is a must. So it went this way.
Some questions included:
- Your favourite subject
- As my work experiene was in the field of Linux and UNIX, he asked me lots of
questions on UNIX like
- Explain the use of tee command
- What is the /etc/hosts file used for?
- What is the use of top command
- Whats a shell
- What is ifconfig
- Use of grep / egrep
etc
- Then he moved on to C. I was asked to implement the strcat() function without using arrays.
This shows that they want you to be very good @ pointers. Then i was asked to explain the
function. And some other basic questions.
- Eventually, he asked some questions on SQL. I was asked to write some queries on Joins
especially outer joins. Some questions on views.
HR Interview
The HR interview was of about 10 minutes. Questions included:
1) Tell me something about yourself
2) Work experience
3) Why Amdocs ?
4) As i was already placed in Accenture, he asked me to compare the aptitude tests of
accenture and amdocs. Which one was easy/difficult ? etc.
5) My strengths and weaknesses.

I) TECH INTERVIEW (Around 45-50 min)

1) about educational background

2)i have mentioned a project in my resume so arround 15 min questions regarding to my

project(if u have done any project and if u know all about ur project then it will be
advantageous for u).they asked.....

i)draw all front end window of project,

ii)what is the best features of your project,

iii)what was your role in project,

iv)how did u compromize at any critical situation in ur project when all of you had different
ideas,

v)have u insert any innovative idea in your project,

vi)how fetch data from data base....write query for that

vii)yor project is in which normal form??

3)then they came on c

i)how we provide dynamic memory allocation in c.....write, how declare melloc

ii)is there any difference between melloc and calloc

iii)write code for a function which work similar as strcat do...using pointer

iv) what is the use of \o in string,why we dont use in array,if we dont provide it instring
declaration that what will hapen.

v)some times you run a c program in turbo c compiler ,the system crashes...why it happen??

4)after that they asked unix

i)simple questions on file permission,

ii)nice command,

ii)if given chmod 777 what does it mean ,

iii)what are system call?

iv)how we do pattern searching ??

5) then they moved towards dbms and sql

i) what did u study in ur college dbms or rdbms is there any difference between them?

ii) one query regarding projection

iii)one query regarding having clause....group by

iv)one query regarding delete operation

v)what is functional dependency??

vi)what is atomicity?

vii) theoritically how can we detect deadlock??

then they asked to me general questions.....

6) heve u ever heard about amdocs

7) how was amdocs question paper.....what is your comment about that

8) before amdocs,how many written u have given?

9) do u feel something difference in selection procedure of amdocs to other companies.....

10)does pointer(CPI) or percentage reflects real knowledge or not??

11) what is the best quality in you...your strength??

12) what is your plan for next sem(V sem)....i said that i will incease my pointers then they
said....just brush up ur concept of

c,unix and dbms..because we work on these......

II) HR INTERVIEW

this was of hardly 15 to 20 min

1)what is the name of other two,those took ur interview??

2) have u heard the ppt then tell me what type of company is amdocs

3) describe your self?

4)tell me about family background.

5) why would u like to join amdocs?

6)have u any plan for further study like mba...?

7) would u like to do work offtime.

2)Technical Interview

My technical interview is of about 60 minutes

A good knowledge of SQL and C is a must. U must know at least the basics command of
unix otherwise u will be rejected. they will just ask u to write 10 commands of unix and they
will ask ques on those 10 commands only.

Well my first question are u very tired?

Then hobbies

Ur fav subject-i told OS n C.

Then they asked me abt semaphore,write code for it ,explain give a practical ex where u will
implement semaphore?

Then they asked deadlock-i answered

Relation between semaphore n deadlock. i was not able to ans properly.they were not
satisfied with my ans this time.
ask me abt projects if i hv done any.i said i hv made a small site on asp.then they asked its
functionality,ADO databse connection etc of which i answered half of questions properly.

an int datatype of 1 byte.

int x=0;

for(x=0;x<256;x++)

print(x)

what is o/p.

I answered wrong.o/p will be an infinite loop,he helped me to ans this.its given in kanetkar
find out how.

Then they got into sql(my weak part and they recognise it).asked ordering of
groupby,having,orderby in a query ?how they are executed in memory and then i was not
able to ans any ques on this.

Then they asked views,how they are updated n bla bla.i was lucky as i know views properly i
answered max question this time.

then they come to unix.they asked me ever hv u used a platform similar to unix.as i work on
fedora 8 it was my strong part.

asked me to write 10 commands.easily done.

Asked some questions on groff,troff,ifconfig,ps,jobs,kill,killall commands.i answered all of

them easily,they were little impressed

for the first time.satisfied with my unix knowledge again move to c.

this time very simple ques.what is pointer,hw u allocate memory to them etc.

then they asked me are u doing any project for be?.

i said yes told them abt my project as i hv already decided the project,it is related to
networking.

They asked me abt router,bridge,http packet,how packet got transfers frm one pc to another?

I answered all this very efficiently as i hv some idea abt networking.

Finally they said do u have any ques to ask? i asked what should i do to improve myself
technically?

They said go through as many courses as u can n improve ur database knowledge specially
queries,rest is fine.

3) HR interview
Dont take it as time pass as it is equally important.be prepared with general hr questions.then
only u can get through it.

ques were very general like why amdocs,tell me abt urself,weakness,strength,family

background,relocation etc.

it was for around 20 min

1) Technical:

Be prepared with ur project. I was asked abt JDBC-ODBC,Servlets,RMI,Hash-map

class' difference. Also about SQL query,program about palindrome,etc. Interviewers
are very friendly & supporting. Also asked me about my city, Hobby,etc. As my father
serves in Narmada Project, he asked me about that in detail. I replied everything
about it. They try to check ur level of logic,thinking power & ability to adopt situation
in this round.

There was 2 interview:

1. Technical interview
2. HR interview
Technical interview:
Interviewer: Tell me about yourself?
Me: Said about me
Interviewer: Asked something about my family?
Me: Told
Interviewer: Asked me to draw the table as well as the interfaces of the project on the
paper.
Me: Done
Interviewer: Asked about application of structure in college?
Me: Told
Interviewer: Asked sql intersection and average function?
Me: Told
Interviewer: Asked about my favourite subject?
Me: DBMS
Interviewer: Asked about normalization And made some table and asked me to find out
how these are related?
Me: Told
Interviewer: Asked do you have any question?
Me: Sir what type of the work we have to do in amdocs?

HR: Achievements?
Me: Told
HR: What you do in your leisure time?
Me: Internet surfing
HR: No it can't be
Me: Drive my car, he again said no any other go on long drive
HR: Strength and weakness? How?
Me: Told
HR: What you want to do in life, what you hadnt done in your life till now?
Me: Told, want to gain the job
HR: Asked to submit documents (photocopies of our marksheets from 10 to degree and
one passport size photograph)