Infosys Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility, Important Dates

HackWithInfy 2026: three steps

Round 1 is virtual and Round 2 is face to face, so clearing the online round means travelling, and participants form their own teams. No question count, duration or marking scheme is published for either qualifier. What is published, free, is a sample questions PDF and the terms and conditions for the edition.

Ingenious

Ordinary hiring has no published pattern

No sections, no duration, no question count, no negative marking rule; the graduate and apply pages carry no assessment description at all. Any pattern naming sections, counts and timings was reconstructed by candidates or preparation sites and carries no date. Where an assessment exists for a drive, it arrives with the posting.

Infosys publishes no syllabus for any hiring assessment. For HackWithInfy it publishes something more useful: sample questions and preparatory guidance in its Practice Arena, written by the people who set the contest, plus the HWI Level Up video series of an orientation, two navigator sessions, a discussion on the mock test and a bonus session.

The 2026 edition is framed around developing impactful, future-ready solutions powered by AI, with possibilities running from smart automation to generative AI, and the prize page names what winners work on: AI, ML and niche devices like VR and AR. Ingenious judges case study solutions and takes management students of all specializations, so it has no technical subject list either.

For ordinary hiring there is nothing: no topic list, no subject list, no skill list. General graduate aptitude and steady programming practice is all that is left to aim at, because Infosys has named nothing narrower.

Eligibility is published for the competitions and internships, and for nothing else.

HackWithInfy 2026

The invitation reads: if you are an engineering student graduating in 2027, we invite you to register now. Full rules are in the terms and conditions, and each edition names its own graduating year.

Ingenious

Internships

Winternship takes 500 select engineering students from computer science and IT disciplines in India, through the institute's placement office. The Summer Internship takes management graduates from partner business schools in India, and InStep students at international universities.

Ordinary hiring

No percentage floor, no backlog rule, no gap ceiling, no age limit, no year-of-passing window. Requirements go on individual postings on the India job list, so read the posting. A general eligibility rule found elsewhere, such as a fixed percentage across tenth, twelfth and graduation, did not come from Infosys.

HackWithInfy

A preparation window, a virtual Round 1, a face-to-face Round 2, then the four-day Grand Finale; the round detail and dates sit under Exam Pattern. What a participant stands to get, in Infosys's own list:

• Pre-placement interview opportunities for the Specialist Programmer and other roles in the specialized units at Infosys.
• Internship offers at Infosys campuses worldwide.
• Exclusive projects on AI, ML and niche devices like VR and AR.
• Cash prizes for the top three teams, and mentorship connects.
• Champion of Champions, an award for the best performing individual.

The PPI attaches at Round 2, not only at the finale: reach the face-to-face round and you are in the frame.

Ingenious

Three rounds, finale at Infosys headquarters in Bangalore, and again the opportunity comes early: PPI opportunity for select students in Round 2 based on case study solutions.

Internships as a route in

Winternship runs 76 days on live projects and ends, on successful completion, in a completion certificate and a priority joining date at Infosys. The Summer Internship runs eight weeks with mid-term and final evaluation and a pre-placement interview with various business units.

Ordinary hiring

No stages are published. Apply through Apply now or the India job list, and nothing is said about what happens next. Read the recruitment fraud alert before responding to any approach claiming to be from Infosys.

Infosys publishes no salary, pay band or CTC for any entry-level role. What it publishes is prize money and the existence of a stipend.

Infosys dates the HackWithInfy figures itself, as of January 2026, and quotes them in dollars because 2026 is the first international edition.

Winternship students earn a stipend across the 76 days; the amount is not named, and no stipend figure is published for the Summer Internship or InStep.

No starting pay is published for a Systems Engineer, Specialist Programmer, Power Programmer or any other entry-level role. Package figures attached to those titles elsewhere did not come from Infosys, and a job posting is the only place the company would state one. In both contests the real outcome is the pre-placement interview, not the cheque.

There is no single Infosys application; each route has its own.

None of it costs anything, and no fee is published for any route, which is why the recruitment fraud alert page exists. The contest contact address is hackwithinfy@infosys.com.

Two things catch people out. Register early: the 2026 window ran January to March and Round 1 in March, so finding the contest in April means missing that edition. And Ingenious needs a team before it needs a candidate.

Infosys Limited hires into its own workforce and its subsidiaries'. No commission or external examining body is involved. Its careers site is infosys.com/careers, where it calls itself a Top 100 Global Brand for 2026 and a Top Employer 2026 for the sixth consecutive year across four regions and twenty countries.

Four subsidiaries also hire, so an application to "Infosys" can land at EdgeVerve Systems, Infosys BPM, Infosys Consulting or Infosys Public Services. HackWithInfy feeds the specialized units, Power Programmers among them.

Which institutions each programme reaches is covered under Eligibility. The campus lists themselves are not published: both contests send candidates to their registration platform, and the internships run through placement offices. InStep draws on top academic institutions around the world.

The only geography Infosys names for an early-career programme is the Winternship locations, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mangalore. Training happens at its Global Education Center.

Plan for the jump from virtual to face to face at Round 2: clearing the online round means travel, and Round 2's own instructions decide where. No locations are published for the Summer Internship or InStep.

For ordinary hiring there is no venue, no centre list, no proctoring rule and no identity requirement, because no assessment is published at all. Where one exists it is notified with the application.

Infosys publishes a calendar for one thing, HackWithInfy. The rest runs off the job list or through a placement office.

The contest is settled in the first quarter, and the seven-month wait to November costs nothing because the PPI attaches at Round 2. Eligibility turns on a graduation year rather than a cut-off date: engineering students graduating in 2027 for this edition, and no other batch can enter it.

Winternship is seasonal rather than dated: a 76-day internship program that begins in the winter season in December, and concludes by spring in April. The Summer Internship runs eight weeks, its dates coming through the partner business school.

Nothing else has a notification date, an application window, a test date or a result date. Roles appear on the India job list and close when they close.

Infosys issues no admit card or hall ticket. Registration opens HackWithInfy Round 1, and qualifying brings the instructions for the next round by email, so keep the registered address live. Contest queries go to hackwithinfy@infosys.com. No genuine Infosys process asks for money; see its recruitment fraud alert.

Infosys publishes no results, scores or scorecards. HackWithInfy participants learn round by round whether they qualified; at the finale the top three teams take cash prizes and Champion of Champions goes to the best individual. Ingenious gives its PPI to select students in Round 2. Job applicants hear through the application itself, and finalists' colleges appear on the HackWithInfy page.

Infosys publishes no cut-off for any contest round, internship or job, and no score threshold or ranking rule. HackWithInfy and Ingenious progress on performance in their rounds. Hiring requirements sit on the individual job postings.

Work Infosys's own sample questions, whatever route you are taking

The HackWithInfy sample questions are the only public specimen of a problem Infosys actually sets, free and current for the 2026 edition. Watch the HWI Level Up sessions alongside them: an orientation, two navigator sessions, a discussion on the mock test and a bonus session.

Register in the first quarter, not the third

The 2026 Starting Block ran January to March and Round 1 was in March. November's finale is a long way off, but entry is settled early, and anyone who starts looking mid-year has missed the edition.

Aim at Round 2, not at the trophy

Round 2 is where a candidate can win an Infosys PPI opportunity, and Ingenious offers its PPI there too. It is also face to face, which Round 1 is not: unfamiliar machine, fixed time, none of your own reference material. Solve some problems in those conditions first.

For Ingenious, build the team first

Four people from one college, all eligible, registered together, with the college capped at 50 teams. Finding three others in the last week is how good candidates miss the entry. Then practise writing case study solutions to a deadline.

For ordinary hiring, read the posting

No aptitude pattern, no syllabus, no eligibility rule. Requirements go on individual roles on the job list. Preparing against a third-party pattern is preparing against something Infosys never published. Spend ten minutes on the recruitment fraud alert page while you are there.

Infosys publishes no previous year papers or answer keys for its hiring. The one official practice set is the HackWithInfy 2026 sample questions, free in the Practice Arena on the contest page. It usually refreshes when the January preparation window opens.

• Infosys Careers.
• HackWithInfy: rounds, dates, prizes.
• HackWithInfy sample questions, 2026 edition.
• HackWithInfy terms and conditions.
• Ingenious: eligibility, team rules, prizes.
• Graduates: InfyTQ, Power Programmers.
• Students and Internships: InStep, Winternship, Summer Internship.
• Apply now, and the India job list of live roles.
• Recruitment fraud alert.

Contest contact: hackwithinfy@infosys.com.

Does Infosys have a campus aptitude test?

It publishes none: no notification, no syllabus, no cut-off, no admit card. The competitions and internships are what it describes in detail.

What is HackWithInfy?

Infosys's coding competition, which it calls the Olympics of Coding: a preparation window, Round 1 virtual, Round 2 face to face, then a four-day Grand Finale. For 2026 that is January to March, March, April and November, and entry is for engineering students graduating in 2027.

What do I win?

USD 3,300, USD 1,650 and USD 1,100 for the top three teams, as of January 2026, plus pre-placement interviews for the Specialist Programmer and other roles in the specialized units, internship offers and a Champion of Champions award. The PPI attaches at Round 2, not only at the finale.

Are there sample questions?

Yes. Sample questions and preparatory guidance sit in the Practice Arena, with a HWI Level Up series that includes a discussion on the mock test.

What is Ingenious, and who can enter?

Infosys's business management contest: three rounds, a finale at Infosys headquarters in Bangalore, prizes of INR 4,00,000, INR 2,50,000 and INR 1,50,000, and a PPI at Round 2 on case study solutions. It takes 2-year management and 1-year Executive MBA students from eligible campuses, aged 18 or older, in teams of four from one college.

What is Winternship?

A 76-day internship for 500 select engineering students from CS and IT in India, December to April, in Hyderabad, Chennai or Mangalore, with a stipend and, on completion, a certificate and a priority joining date at Infosys. You cannot apply directly: contact your institute's placement office. InStep, the flagship global internship program for international universities, is the other way in, with 2,000 interns in 20 years.

What is the Infosys cut-off percentage, or the test pattern?

Neither is published. No general eligibility rules exist on the careers pages; requirements go on individual job postings. Any section-wise pattern or percentage floor found elsewhere is a reconstruction.

Does Infosys publish salaries?

Not on its careers pages. It publishes contest prize money, and says Winternship interns earn a stipend without naming the amount.

Where do I apply, and how do I know an offer is genuine?

Apply now or the India job list. Infosys keeps a recruitment fraud alert page, linked from every careers page; no genuine Infosys process asks for money.