Infosys

1. Choose your entry route

Freshers reach Infosys through campus placements, mega off-campus drives announced on the Infosys careers portal, and InfyTQ, the company's own learning and certification platform. Strong InfyTQ scores and HackWithInfy, the annual coding contest, can lead directly to interviews for the Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer tracks. Laterals apply to specific job postings or through referrals.

2. Registration and eligibility check

Candidates register with academic details and choose a track. Typical eligibility is a B.E., B.Tech, M.E., M.Tech, MCA or M.Sc with around 60 percent or 6 CGPA throughout, no active backlogs, and a gap of not more than a year or two in education. Recent batches only are considered in a given drive.

3. Online assessment

Systems Engineer candidates take a test of reasoning, mathematical ability, verbal ability and pseudocode, sometimes with puzzle-solving. Specialist Programmer and DSE candidates sit a coding-heavy test of three or more programming problems that rise in difficulty, and the score decides which salary band you are considered for.

4. Technical interview

A video interview with an Infosys engineer or architect covering your projects, core computer science, and live problem-solving. Higher tracks get deeper data-structures and design questions.

5. HR interview

Often combined with the technical round for freshers. It covers motivation, relocation, shift flexibility, and the service agreement that entry-level joiners sign.

6. Offer, background check and training

Successful candidates receive an offer with a track and band, complete document verification, and, for entry roles, join a training batch before project allocation.

The number of rounds depends on the track you apply for. Systems Engineer candidates usually face one combined interview after the test; Specialist Programmer candidates face a tougher test and at least two interviews.

Round 1: Online assessment

For Systems Engineer roles the test runs about 100 minutes and covers reasoning, mathematical ability, verbal ability, pseudocode and sometimes puzzles, each with its own cut-off. For Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer roles it is a coding test of three problems, typically easy, medium and hard, over about three hours on a proctored platform.

• Data interpretation, probability, permutations and combinations
• Pseudocode output, loops, recursion, basic data structures
• Coding: arrays, strings, hashing, dynamic programming, graphs for the higher tracks

Round 2: Technical interview

Thirty to forty-five minutes on video with an engineer or a technology lead. The discussion starts with your projects and moves to fundamentals and a live coding or design question.

• OOP principles, exception handling, collections in Java or Python
• SQL queries with joins, group by and subqueries
• Write a function to check a palindrome, find the second largest element, detect a cycle in a linked list
• For DSE and Specialist Programmer: time complexity, system design basics, a cloud or AI concept from your resume

Round 3: Managerial or second technical round (higher tracks)

Specialist Programmer candidates often get a second, deeper interview with a senior architect that focuses on problem-solving approach and design trade-offs.

• Design a URL shortener or a rate limiter
• Optimise a given piece of code and justify the data structure
• How would you debug a slow API in production

Round 4: HR interview

Fifteen to twenty minutes with a recruiter, sometimes folded into the technical call for freshers.

• Why Infosys and where do you see yourself in five years
• Comfort with relocation to any Infosys development centre and with the service agreement
• A time you learnt a new skill quickly