I participated in HackWithInfy 2021 conducted in the month of May with the intention of hiring students from the batch of 2022. The entire process contains two rounds — a coding round and one interview (technical).
Coding Round: There were a total of 3 questions, one was easy, two were moderate.
- One of the moderate questions was this.
- One had the convenience of choosing to code from a surfeit list of languages. Rudimentary documentation was provided for selective languages to which one could refer while coding.
- In order to be selected for the role of Power Programmer, one had to solve all three questions. For being short-listed for the role of Digital Specialist Engineer, partially solving two questions (passing of about 75% test cases) would have sufficed. I managed to solve two questions in the stipulated time and got the call for the interview of Digital Specialist Engineer (formerly known as System Engineer Specialist).
Interview: Coincidentally, I had my interview scheduled on the 40th anniversary of Infosys’ inception. The interview was held on Webex by Cisco and commenced with the exchange of pleasantries. Soon after, I was asked to share my screen and open any online compiler. I was first asked if I were comfortable with C/C++, I replied positively. The interviewer asked two questions, both of which may be unequivocally termed to be of novice level:
- Input an array and determine whether the elements of the array are prime or not
- Print n Fibonacci numbers
I was able to generate the expected output for both the programs and explained my logic. The interviewer seemed satisfied and move to the next segment of the interview. She asked me to rate my proficiency in databases, I rated myself to have moderate proficiency.
- I was then asked regular theoretical questions from DBMS (types of joins, primary key, foreign key, DELETE, TRUNCATE and DROP commands).
- I answered most of them, and the interviewer finally asked if I had any questions for her. I didn’t restrain myself from pointing out the fact that it was their 40th anniversary and enquired about the kind of tech stack used at work by her.
Result: After a duration of a month and 2 days, I received a mail with the job offer.