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Referrals are a way for an existing employee to endorse someone who wishes work at Amazon. An endorsement does not guarantee an interview, however with any large sized companies, referrals are a really nice way to increase the chances that your resume at the least gets screened by a recruiter. Most people are aware of this benefit of referral. With platforms like Quora/LinkedIn, it has also become very easy for someone to discover present employees at any of the firms, however I’d like to point out a few flaws with a blind approach for a referral. ...

I had applied for internship at Microsoft (SWE Intern ‘16) and Amazon (SDE Intern ‘17). This resume is from when I was in 5th Semester. Microsoft had been on campus for Interns. I basically had nothing at that time to construct a good looking resume apart from my test scores and a few competitions. The biggest takeaway is that the interviewers did not question me anything on my resume since there was nothing fancy. I was strictly judged on the basis of a few programming questions. I was not very confident of a few small projects that I had done. And I decided to exlude them from the resume. In my opinion, anything that you are not confident about should not make it to your resume. ...

I interned at Amazon Development Centre (Hyderabad) for 5 months at the start of 2017 while I was in my 8th Semester. In my 7th Semester, I had been trying hard to secure an internship in some startup or corporate. Amazon was in my wish-list because I had friends who had interned there during the summers and had awesome things to say about the experience. During December 2016, I was contacted by a recruiter for an intern position after a senior had referred me for an Intern position. After a couple of rounds of interview, I got selected for a position in Amazon’s Hyderabad campus. I was really happy because Hyderabad was a city I was familiar with and I had a few friends interning there. After doing a little bit research about my team, I got to know I would be working with the Amazon Home Services team. Back then I never knew Amazon was into such a business line for selling services to customers and I thought it to be pretty interesting. ...