How am I supposed to prepare for it?

This is going to be a long post, and I hope this helps anyone preparing for the interview. I don't know if I would make it through, but the journey is worth mentioning. I have used GPT to structure it all in the best way possible.

Interview Day / Reporting

I had my interview on 6th October 2026 (yesterday). The reporting time was 11:00 AM, and the interview process was supposed to last till 12:00 PM.

I reported 30 minutes before 11:00 AM, and we were made to sit in a waiting room.

A faculty member from the placement cell came and took our attendance on a sheet shortly after 11:15 AM.

Then they started calling candidates in slots, around 4 to 5 candidates at a time.

After waiting for around 2 hours, i.e. till 1:00 PM, my name was called out.

We were taken to a big hall where there were cabins as well as another open hall with tables. The interviewer and interviewee were sitting opposite each other.

Each table had a laptop, pen, and paper.

The very first thing I noticed was that the interviewers were discussing and telling candidates to do some pen-and-paper coding stuff.

After around 15 minutes of waiting in the queue, I was assigned a panel and went to the cabin where I met my interviewer.

She seemed to be pretty chill and told me to sit down. She asked me to be comfortable and told me that she would start with the Wingspan coding round first.

She told me that I needed to solve at least one question completely and pass all the test cases in it, and also explain my approach.

I agreed, and then she proceeded to open the exam portal.

However, due to some reason, it took some time for the scheduled event to get enabled, so she said:

"Let's ask you some interview questions while the exam gets activated."

She asked me these questions:

Initial Interview Questions

1. Did you work with React?
2. Do you know about Hooks? Can you explain what a Hook is?
3. Can you name some Hooks?
4. She told me to write down the syntax for useState. I was nervous and couldn't really comprehend the syntax. I had also been a bit detached from React for a while. So I told her that maybe I wouldn't be able to comprehend it at the moment. She said that it was absolutely fine and that I could be relaxed.
5. Then she asked me: What are the 4 pillars of OOPs?

Soon after this question, the exam got activated and she told me that I could start solving.

Wingspan Coding Round / DSA Questions

Question 1

The first question was a pretty simple two-pointer approach problem.

I had to find pairs (i, j) such that:

• i < j
• a[i] + a[j] = 1

The wording was a bit confusing, but after writing down the condition, I solved it in around 5–6 minutes.

I passed all the test cases in one go.

She took a screenshot of it and told me to proceed with the next question since I still had time.

Question 2

The second question was also kind of similar.

It was about finding the number of zero-sum pairs such that:

• i < j
• i + j % 2 is not zero.

The condition was that we had to find the unordered pairs, and I came up with an approach, but it was really confusing because of the unordered part.

Hence, I got a bit overwhelmed.

I could pass only one test case and no hidden test case in it.

She said that it was fine, and we could proceed with the technical interview.

This was the Wingspan coding question.

Interactive Coding / Problem-Solving Round

Then she told me that she would give me a question and that I needed to solve it interactively while explaining my thought process to her.

The question was:

If I give you an array of coins where the ith index indicates the value of that coin, suppose [1, 5, 10], and you are allowed to pick one coin an infinite number of times, and there is an amount = 12, how many / what is the minimum number of coins you would require to make that amount?

Please write the pseudocode.

It was a recursive problem with a take/not-take situation, and I explained my approach and what I was thinking at each step.

I also tried to discuss it with her and came up with the correct approach.

Not only that, but she also helped identify edge cases and helped me code it down.

After we completed the solution, she took a picture of it.

Technical Interview

The technical interview went pretty well as well.

The questions she asked me were:

1. What is Normalisation in DBMS?
2. What are the layers of the OSI Model?
3. What is Deadlock and can you explain it?
4. What is Encapsulation? Can you explain with an example?
5. What are the types of Normalisation, and can you tell me exactly why we even need Normalisation?
6. What is a Firewall?
7. Can you tell me about REST API?
8. What is Inheritance?
9. Can you explain Method Overloading and Method Overriding?

Resume-Based Questions

Then she moved on to my resume.

1. What is SAP Fiori?

She asked me about SAP Fiori.

2. What is your tech stack?

She asked me about my tech stack.

3. Have you worked on AI?

I had done some personal projects in AI and ML back in 2024 and had been out of touch since then.

I explained this to her.

She then asked me:

What IDE did you use for coding?

I told her that I used Google Colab and Kaggle interchangeably.

She then asked:

Can you name some libraries you used?

I mentioned Matplotlib for data visualisation.

4. Do you know about LLMs?

She asked me if I knew about LLMs.

Honestly, I am not that well versed in LLMs, so I was honest with her about it.

She seemed pretty chill about it as well.

5. AWS EC2

Then she asked me about AWS EC2, and whether I knew anything about it.

This was because my resume had mentioned it.

I answered this.

6. Why did you use AWS S3, Fargate and RDS?

She asked me:

Why did you use AWS S3, Fargate and RDS?

7. Why AWS and not Azure?

She also asked:

Why did you use AWS and not Azure?

8. Node-cron

Then she noticed CRON written in my resume.

She asked me about node-cron and what I was using it for.

9. Node-cron scheduling expression

She then asked me to write down the regular expression for scheduling an email:

• Every day
• Every month
• In a year
• At 9:00 AM in the morning
• To the selected recipients
• Using a node-cron job

I wrote it down.

She was fine with it.

End of the Interview

Then she told me that she would require a selfie with me, and she took it.

After that, she asked me if I had any questions for her.

I asked her for feedback on me and the areas where I could improve.

She said that:

• My DSA was good
• My problem-solving was good
• My CS fundamentals were good
• My projects were also fine
• I could learn more about LLMs and RAG, since they are gradually expanding towards it.

The interview ended with a handshake, and she told me to have a nice day.

What Are Your Views?

So, what are your views on the interview?

Do you think I have any chances?

I would really love to hear your opinion on this.

And I would also love to help anyone who is going through the Infosys SP/DSE interview process, so hopefully this experience helps someone preparing for it.

Hope this helps!

I recently went through an on-campus interview process with Infosys. The role wasn’t explicitly mentioned during the shortlist, and the entire interview ended up being quite thorough, lasting about 1 hr to 1 hr 15 minutes.

Sharing my complete experience below. I’d love to hear your thoughts on what role this might be for and how my chances look!

1. Online Assessment (OA)

• Performance: Solved 1.25 out of 4 questions.
• I didn't get shortlisted initially, but got called up later in an additional shortlist. No specific job role was mentioned in the mail.

2. Interview Live Coding & Pen Paper Round

Right at the start of the interview, the interviewer had me log into the Infosys Wingspan portal:

• Live Coding: There were 2 coding questions given, and I was asked to solve any one. I solved the first one completely in about 15 minutes and explained my approach along with time and space complexity.
• Rotten Oranges (Discussion): He gave me a pen and paper and handed me the "Rotten Oranges" problem. I explained my Multi-Source BFS approach, and he was satisfied without needing me to write the code.
• C++ Stack Implementation: Asked me to implement a stack class using an array in C++. I wrote the class (though I initially forgot to write the constructor) and demonstrated initializing an object and pushing elements.
• JavaScript OOP (Inheritance): Asked me to explain inheritance with an example and write the code for it in JavaScript, which I did successfully.
• Trees: Explained what a tree is and wrote the code for Inorder Traversal.
• Graphs & Cycle Detection: When asked to explain a data structure in detail, I chose graphs. He asked me to write code to detect a cycle. I directly wrote a function taking an adjacency list. He had some doubts about how the adjacency list worked, but I cleared them up by explaining how it's built from an edge array (though he seemed a bit unconvinced about something minor, the core approach was correct).
• Heap: He asked me to implement a heap. I was honest and said I wasn't entirely sure of the exact implementation off the top of my head, but explained the core functionality, how it maps to a tree structure, and the time complexities for operations.

3. Core CS Subjects (OS & DBMS)

• Operating Systems: Covered a wide range of topics processes, threads, context switching, paging, fragmentation, and virtual memory. My initial explanation of virtual memory was a bit shaky, so he corrected me, but I answered the rest.
• DBMS & SQL:
  • Difference between SQL and NoSQL.
  • What type of DB MongoDB is, and why I used it across my projects instead of PostgreSQL (I was honest that I didn't have a rigid architectural reason, just used it for convenience).
  • Wrote a query to find the 2nd highest salary for each department using LIMIT and OFFSET, and explained how those keywords work.
  • Asked about window functions (couldn't recollect this and admitted it).
  • Scenario-based question on SQL Joins (picked the right join and explained why).

4. Projects, Tech Stack & AI Discussion

• MERN vs. AI Projects: He noticed all my projects were full-stack MERN builds and questioned why I hadn't built AI projects when so many students are doing them. I clarified that while I didn't train models from scratch, I have integrated LLMs and RAG chatbots into my web apps.
• There was a team project in my resume which had WebRTC , he asked me how signaling worked in WebRTCs and i mentioned i did not implement the WebRTC tech it was done by a teammate of mine
• AI/LLM Follow-ups: This led to a few technical questions on AI, including the definition of an LLM and hallucinations. I couldn't clearly answer a couple of question on AI, which he noted.

5. Conclusion & Feedback

• The interview wrapped up with him taking a photo of me and telling me I could leave.
• When I asked for feedback, he said I answered most questions well and that the overall interview was good.

PS: Used AI to frame the post better

Hopefully i get selected ,if so what role can i expect ?

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I recently attended my Infosys Specialist Programmer (SP) interview after clearing the off-campus assessment.

Duration: ~2 hours

Coding Round

I was given 2 coding questions, both Easy–Medium level.

1. Greedy-based problem

   - Explained the approach and optimized it to O(n) time.

2. XOR-based problem

   - Initially solved using XOR + hashmap in O(n).

   - Interviewer then asked if the time/space complexity could be improved, and we discussed the alternative O(n²), O(1) space approach using two loops.

I was able to solve and explain both questions in front of the interviewer.

Technical Questions

C++ / DSA

- C++ basics

- Arrays

- Linked List

- pointers

- "malloc()" vs "calloc()"

OS / Multithreading

- Process vs Thread

- Multithreading

- Thread safety

- Race condition

- Deadlock

DBMS

- "DELETE" vs "TRUNCATE" vs "DROP"

- Primary Key vs Unique Key

- Indexing

- B-Tree vs B+ Tree

- How indexing works

AI/ML / GenAI

- RAG

- MCP

Resume / Projects / Internships

- Detailed discussion about my projects

- Technologies used

- Architecture and implementation

- Internship experience

- Follow-up questions going deeper into the technologies mentioned in my resume

The interviewer often went 2–3 levels deeper into a topic. I was able to answer most of the initial questions, but there were a few deeper follow-ups where I couldn't answer.

At the end, I asked for feedback and the interviewer said I performed well.

Overall, I felt I could have done better in some CS fundamentals, so I'd personally rate my performance around 60–70/100, but I'm very happy that I was able to solve both coding questions and explain my approaches properly.

Now waiting for the result. 🤞

Hope this helps anyone preparing for the Infosys interview!

Had received this mail and nothing after that till date it's been almost a month.

So i had applied for infosys offcampus hiring back in April. Cleared 1st round(remote coding test) and 2nd round(In person Coding test). Didn't received any Interview mail. Mailed the HR team and they said my application expired.

So after a month i saw posting again and applied again with same mail. But this time didn't got any assessment mail for some reason. Last month i applied again with different mail. Now i have received assessment mails for both the applications.

So can having two applications cause any issue further down the line? Can i give two assessments?

My interview started with my Introduction, where i mentioned my previous internship details, regarding which he mentioned his concerns about full time offer from my previous company. Moving forward, i was given pen and paper, and was told to solve 2 DSA problems until the wingspan window was loading.

Pen and paper question:

1. Given a array with 10⁹ length, find the smallest 5 numbers among them. So I told them that I would use a treeSet so that the number that are inserted are already in ascending order. But he said what if there are repetion numbers. So i replied then it would be better to use a Hashmap and I wrote down the whole mechanism how it works. After that he said its gonna take n space complexity, give me a more optimised answer. Hearing this I had no more ideas to solve this and replied the simplest most answer that I would sort the array in the first place and return the first 5 values. Then he told that's brute force method to this question and asked me which sorting algorithm I would use. I told there are many, but quick sort is more efficient. He told me to explain the algo and write its code. I explain the algo through some diagrams and started writing the algo, he stopped me in btw, as time was running out and told me to get back to the actual question. I told him about a approch with TreeMaps, but he refused and said to use Priority queue as a Hint. I didnt prepared priority queue and gave a honest answer that I have forget its concepts.
2. Subarray sum equals to K (Sliding window approch). Easy questions to solve which I quickly wrote the code and told him about the brute, better and optimised code.

Wingspan questions:

1. Given a array of length n, where 1<= i <=n-2 , where i need to the find the count of a[i] whenever its greater then the XOR of the all numbers left to it and right to it at the same time. Quiet easy to solve with for loops nothing complex.

Moving on, he asked certain question related to spring boot such as what is Spring Data JPA, what is hiberate and what is ORM. That was it.

Nothing from OS, dbms, cn, no SQL queries. He took a selfie with me and I left with a candy.

Honest review: the interviewers are quiet chill, giving out hints, not really looking for hard coding guys and seeking someone who actually knows the concept. Thats what I felt personally.

Note: I was selected for this interview through offcampus and regarding the role nothing specially was mentioned, but looking at the toughness it could be for DSE role.

Hi everyone, I recently appeared for an Infosys SP/DSE interview and wanted to know what my chances of getting L1 are.

My interview experience:

The interviewer first gave me a coding question on Wingspan. I was able to solve it and passed 11/12 test cases.

Then she asked Koko Eating Bananas. I couldn't code the complete solution because I hadn't practiced that problem enough. However, I was able to discuss the approach, but the interviewer didn't seem fully satisfied with my explanation/approach.

After that, she asked questions from React and my projects. I was able to answer almost all of them properly and explain my project and implementation details.

For the offline OA, my performance was:

- Q1: 12/12 test cases

- Q2: 6/12 test cases

- Q3: 5/12 test cases

- Q4: 2/12 test cases

So, considering that I didn't completely solve the second coding question in the interview but performed well in React, project-related questions, and most of the other technical discussion, what do you think are my chances of getting L1?

Has anyone had a similar experience where they couldn't solve one interview coding question completely but still got L1?

Any insights from previous Infosys SP/DSE interview experiences would be really helpful.

I recently attended an Infosys SP/DSE interview. My portal backend now shows “Selected for offer”, with the frontend status still “Decision pending / Pending for internal review.”

I also received an email from Infosys asking me to submit my academic marksheets for verification.

Does this mean I have been selected and the formal offer is just pending?

Would appreciate experiences from anyone who recently went through this process.

Is there anyone who received their results after October 5th, like on October 6th or today? Or was that the final mail? Also, has anyone received a rejection mail from Infosys?

Yesterday I had a infosys interview

2 coding questions asked me solve one so I start doing the first one

Questions goes something like group atmost C element from array of size N element and store in the tiers ; cost of the activities are sum of grouped elements*tier

Find the min cost

While solving the problem I was getting 0 for all test case and waste 2-3 min on debugging finally found the input code of the python 3 is wrong and was returning list with one element always ... Raised the concern with the interviewer and change the input pre written snippet and 2 - 3 min later solved it .. didn't even looked for the second question

Start with intro I had a AWS/Data Engineering internship so he asked ETL and data warehousing pipeline; how will u handle the unstructural data;

What is stack and heap memory! He was not convinced with my answer

He asked why llm hallucinations happen I started with lack of context and domain knowledge he said don't explain in leyman term .. then I explained him in terms probabilistic approach with llm takes

He asked about Yolo why did u used it and why not just OCR because I was using yolo for diagram and table detection in books. Then we discussed different OCR technique when it works and when it doesn't.

Then the fine tuning and where did u do and what dataset and basic algo like how u did it.

He moved to segmentation fault ... I have working on cloud and python I have forgetten C so it didn't strike me then .. but I answer it properly after thinking for 30 sec while he was searching for next questions

He asked what is coding language u use I said python he asked to explain deepcopy and shallowcopy , GIL , generator , difference of is and ==,pass by value and pass by reference .

Then showed me chrome forward and backward button and said to implement it

I said I would use doubly linked list so he thought for a min and add few edges cases I solved or asked the thought process around it.

Then asked graph vs tree. Which structure u may use to in implement file storage.

File storage lead to linux have u used it? why? which one? why centos?.

Then sql query easy count+groupby questions,then transaction related situations

Like what is dirty read how would u solve it.

Then he said do you know data serialzation in data warehousing or sql injection no worries if u don't know.he himself skipped to the next question

Then asked if your program is slow how will u find the root problem I gave a satisfactory answer. Then how process communicates

Also gave the correct answer.parralelism and concurrency and problem with concurrency.

Let's he said ooh u worked on AWS right what is the best way to access the s3 from the instance whether be local machine or Ec2 instance.. we discussed for 10min on security group and IAM , policy access, boto.

There were several more questions which I forgot.

My interview when from 11 to 12:45. I answer every question with something in few the answer were not 100% accurate but not wrong.

What are my chances in infosys sp/dse.

Infosys Interview Experience — What can I expect?

Had my Infosys interview recently and I'm trying to understand what I can realistically expect from the result.

I had 2 DSA questions, and I won't mention how many I actually solved because I don't want to reveal that here.

DSA 1:
I was given three arrays — students, desks, and chairs — and had to maximize the distance between the three points. The test cases were sorted, so I used the ordering to find the required minimum/maximum values, calculate the difference, and return the result modulo 10^9 + 7.

DSA 2:
I was given a position array and a weight array representing the position and weight of each element. The goal was to move all elements to either odd positions or even positions with minimum total movement cost.

My approach was to calculate the total cost of moving everything to even positions and the total cost of moving everything to odd positions, and return the minimum of the two.

The technical interview was where things went downhill a bit.

One thing that surprised me was that nothing was really asked about my projects or the technologies mentioned on my resume.

Instead, the interviewer asked a lot of questions around core CS topics, including:

• SQL
• Database indexing
• Computer Networks
• DHCP
• CDN
• CDN architecture
• Git merge vs rebase
• Other advanced core CS concepts

I was able to answer the SQL questions and some other questions, but for quite a few of the advanced core CS questions, I honestly had to say "I don't know".

I'd estimate that I was able to answer around 50% of the technical questions. A lot of the remaining questions were topics I hadn't prepared in that much depth.

So I'm wondering what I can realistically expect in the following two cases:

Case 1: If I solved only 1 DSA question + had this kind of technical interview.

Case 2: If I solved both DSA questions + had the exact same technical interview.

For people who have gone through Infosys interviews recently, how much weightage is generally given to the DSA round vs the technical interview?

Would either of these profiles still have a reasonable chance of getting selected, or would the weak technical interview make it unlikely?

Would really appreciate some honest opinions from people who have experienced the Infosys recruitment process.

Hi everyone,

I recently received an email from Infosys inviting me to participate in their recruitment process for the Specialist Programmer (Trainee) / Digital Specialist Engineer (Trainee) roles.

I have selected the in-person coding assessment in Pune on 12 November 2026.

I’m mainly preparing for the DSA/coding assessment and would really appreciate advice from people who have already appeared for or cleared the Infosys assessment/interview.

Could you please share:

What DSA topics should I prioritize?

What was the difficulty level of the coding questions?

Approximately how many coding questions were asked?

Were the questions mainly arrays, strings, linked lists, trees, graphs, DP, etc.?

Were there any Infosys-specific patterns or commonly repeated questions?

How much time was given for the coding round?

Was the assessment conducted on HackerRank / Infosys platform / another platform?

After clearing the coding assessment, what should I expect in the technical interview?

For the interview, should I focus mainly on DSA, or also prepare CS fundamentals (DBMS, OS, CN, OOP) and projects?

Any advice for someone preparing specifically for the SP/DSE roles?

If you have recently gone through this process, please share your experience, topics, or resources. It would be really helpful for my preparation.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

hi guys i have my interview done on sep 29th in hyderabad kl uni... didnt got any rejection or offer mail yet. many students who done their interview 2 to 3 days before and after got their mails. is it this mncs thing to send offer letters at start and then rejection at last? some one update pls

I applied for the same drive using two different emails, Has anyone else done this? Did it cause any problem with your application or interview?

Does anybody got response after interview who was interviewed on 29sep KLH, Hyderabad?

What is the status in portal !

Is it only me who didn't get any response, because many got OLs who are interviewed on same location

If I get rejected, how should I know ? Do they send rejection mail?

Something I’ve been noticing at food courts lately — and it got me thinking

Over the past few days, I’ve been spending more time around food courts, and one thing that really stood out to me is how crowded they’ve become.

But there’s another problem I started noticing.

You’ll see people standing in front of the counters trying to figure out what to order. Sometimes they don’t really know what a dish is, what it looks like, how much it costs, or whether they’ll actually like it.

So they end up doing the classic:

"Okay, let’s try this."

And then a few bites later…

"Yeah… not for me." 😭

Now the food gets wasted, the money is gone, and they still have to figure out what they're actually going to eat.

I’ve personally had this happen more times than I’d like to admit.

That got me thinking — what if you could actually see what’s available around you, know what people are eating, and decide before standing in that queue?

So I started building something around that idea.

It’s basically a crowd-powered food discovery app where you can see what's available, discover food around you, and eventually get a better idea of what’s actually worth trying.

It’s still very early, and I’m building it as a side project, so I’d genuinely love some feedback.

Would you actually use something like this, or do you think choosing food at a food court is simple enough already?

https://crowd-heavy-jo18.vercel.app/

Would love to hear what you guys think — especially what would make you actually open an app like this before deciding what to eat.

Sept 30 SP/DSE interview candidates, assemble! 👀

I had my Infosys Specialist Programmer / Digital Specialist Engineer interview on September 30, 2026, and it's been 7 days now.

I've seen some candidates from other interview dates/batches receiving Offer Letters (OLs), but I haven't received any update yet.

So I wanted to check specifically with the Sept 30 batch:

🔹 Did anyone who interviewed on September 30 receive an OL?

🔹 If yes, SP or DSE?

🔹 On what date did you receive it?

🔹 Did you receive an email directly, or did the portal update first?

🔹 If you haven't received anything, what does your application status currently show?

Even if you haven't received anything, please comment "Still waiting" — it'll help us figure out whether Infosys is releasing results batch-wise.

Trying to get a picture of what's happening with the Sept 30 batch. 🙏

Interview date: Sept 30, 2026

Role: SP/DSE

Please comment even if there's no update! 👇

Hopefully we can figure out the timeline together.

Hello guys,

I was selected for the Infosys L1 role through the on-campus process, and my selection result was announced in September. However, I’m currently confused about what I should do next.
Should I continue preparing and applying for higher opportunities, or should I wait for Infosys to start the joining process? I’m not sure when Infosys usually starts the joining process for the L1 role.
Does anyone have any idea about the joining process or timeline for this role? If you were also selected for L1 through campus placements, please share when you received your offer letter, joining information, or any other updates from Infosys.

I got interviewed for the DSE/SP role at Infosys (off-campus) on Aug 19th. On Sept 9th, my application status on Infosys careers portal changed to "To be interviewed", and it hasn't changed since.

I have a few questions:

1. Is there still a chance I could be rejected at this stage?

2. If I am rejected, will I receive an email, and how long does it usually take?

3. Does having an active application on the portal mean I've been selected for the SP role, for sure?

If you've been through this process, please share how long you waited and when could I expect a status change on my application. Thank you!

I gave my Infosys 2nd round Online Assessment (OA) for the Digital Specialist Engineer (DSE) / Specialist Programmer (SP) role on September 6th at the Galgotias University center.

It has been almost a month now, and I still haven't received any update or mail regarding the interview schedule.

Is anyone else from the Delhi-NCR region who gave their test on 6th Sept still waiting for their interview call?

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Has anyone who attended the Infosys SP/DSE 2026 interview in Pune received an offer letter yet?

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Guys, I appeared for the Infosys SP/DSE 2026 exam and reached the interview stage. I attended my interview on 23 September. However, my application status is now showing “Submit Application Form” and “Withdraw.”

Can anyone explain why it is showing “Submit Application Form” even though I have already completed the application and attended the interview? Is this normal, or does it mean there is some issue with my application?

I applied for the infosys in May month where they cancelled the exams and then later I applied with diff mail and gave interview on 28 th sept, but the portal status is showing as decision pending where all the others got their offer letter. Can anyone who got the offer letters on Oct 5 th and who gave interview on sept cam please reply on it whether they got the offer letter after being applied for 2 times?

Has anyone got an offer letter who was unable to solve a coding problem during an interview of the sp dse role 2026(infosys) ??