Placement Drive Amazon India
21st & 22nd January 2017
Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida hosted the campus placement drive for Amazon India for B.Tech (All Branches) Batch 2017 on 21st & 22nd January 2017.
Amazon.com Inc. is an American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington and United States. It is the world's largest online retailer company. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico, with sites for Sri Lanka and South East Asian countries coming soon. It also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products.
It was a massive placement drive in which around 500 students from various colleges including Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University, CET-IILM Academy Of Higher Learning, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women, GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, K.R.Mangalam University and AMITY University participated.
Mr. Anupam Agarwal and Ms. Pooja Jain - HR visited the premises with their 5 TEAM Members to facilitate the drive.
The first round of drive started with the company’s presentation in which Ms. Pooja Jain briefed the students about the profile and Amazon’s work culture. She took up the question and queries from the students. It was followed by a communication round with the students to gauge their communication skills. The HR personnel interacted with the students.
All the students who cleared the first round underwent the second round which was English Versant Test. This was a very comprehensive English and Analytical test. In this the students were given various situations and were adjudged on their reactions.
The third round was the personal interview by the panelists. All the shortlisted students after the first and second rounds underwent a very grilling session with the operations manager and they were judged on the basis of flexibility, Amazon’s culture fitment and the attitude to work.
After a testing day for the students, the entire activity came to an end at 06:00PM with the Vote of Thanks rendered by Ms. Prachi Agarwal, Training & Placement Officer, DGI, Greater Noida.