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Insist on working across a team boundary without formal authority, and on enough spotting the task worth automating to work unsupervised on small tasks. Scripting in Python or Bash is the third thing worth testing in the interview. Tool familiarity — Python, Bash, cron or Airflow — is a bonus rather than a filter: most of it is a week of learning for someone with the underlying skill.

One finished thing. Automate one handoff that currently requires an email between two teams is the right size: real work someone on the team would otherwise do, small enough to finish, visible enough to assess. If they move quickly, automate the report someone rebuilds by hand every Monday is the natural second piece. A term with three half-finished projects assesses nothing and teaches less.

Start from ₹15,500–₹35,000 a month, then adjust for city and duration: metros at the top, tier-2 typically 25–40% lower, and six-month commitments above six-week ones. Publish the number in the listing — "as per industry standards" is read as low or undecided, and it costs you applications from exactly the candidates who had another option.

For a first pass, yes. Ask "How do you choose what to automate first?" and judge whether the answer is specific and consistent — you are checking for frequency times pain, not what is most fun, which does not require you to know the subject. A Automation Engineering practitioner should still take the second round, because at that point you are assessing depth rather than authenticity.

In order: what they will actually work on, whether there is a named mentor, the stipend, and whether the company converts interns. A listing that answers all four gets meaningfully more and better applications than one at the same stipend that answers none — specificity, not money, is usually the binding constraint.

Pairing DevOps with another specialism means the intern sits between two teams. Name which side owns them, or they will end up reporting to neither. In screening terms, that means adding one specific check: working across a team boundary without formal authority.

Specificity does most of the work. A listing that names the project, the tools and the deliverable filters itself, because candidates can tell whether they fit. Adding one screening question to the application — from the set above — removes most of the rest without adding a review round.

First applications typically arrive within about two hours of the listing going live, and most employers hiring a Automation Engineering intern have a workable shortlist inside a week. Speed depends more on how specific the brief is than on the stipend — a listing with a named project and named tools consistently outperforms a generic one at the same money.