Infosys Interview Experience for Hackwithinfy DSE

Hackwithinfy is a pre-placement opportunity for the semester 6 students. Students from all over India can participate in this competition as it is off campus placement opportunity. You can refer to the eligibility of hackwithinfy competition on the official page of Infosys. There is a total of three rounds of interviews in which two rounds are written and one round is a technical interview.

Round 1

it consisted of 3 coding questions to be solved in 3 hours. The platform where they conducted the exam was HackerEarth. the complexity of one question would be very easy, the complexity of the second question would be your medium, and the complexity of the third question would be tough. during my written round. the easy question was based on an array, the medium question was based on strings, and the tough question was based on graph . Round one was held in March. You can also refer to these links to study these topics. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/learn-data-structures-and-algorithms-dsa-tutorial/

Round 2

The results of the round one were declared in May. if you attempt a single question correctly in round one then you are qualified for Round 2. This is also the programming round where you will be given three programming questions having a little higher difficulty than round one. In Round 2 I got similar kinds of questions with a little bit of high difficulty on array string and graph. Practicing such questions from Hackerrank or hacker earth was very useful for me at that time. This round is very crucial because in this round you get the interview for specific roles that is if you solve one question correctly in round 2, then you will be getting an interview for a software engineer role, if you attempt 2 questions correctly with all test cases passed, you will be getting the interview for Digital specialist engineer or software engineer specialist role and if you attend three questions correctly then you will be getting an interview for power programmer role.

Round 3

This is the interview round.since I solved two questions correctly in round 2 I got the interview mail for Digital specialist engineer Role. I got a mail in June stating that I cleared round 2 and my interview dates will be allocated shortly. in November I got my interview date which was on 5th November. So my interview went like this-

• He- good morning
• Me- good morning sir
• He- are you feeling nervous?
• Me- this is my first interview so I am more excited than nervous
• He- oh that’s great you are currently in which semester?
• Me- 7 semesters sir
• He- ok so let’s start with the interview just give a brief introduction of yourself
• Me- I give a brief introduction of myself covering the points like my college name, my graduation year, my family, my hobby, my project, my internships, and my skills
• He- so you made a project in ethical hacking can you please explain briefly what do you mean by ethical hacking
• Me- introduction of ethical hacking and explain the little bit about the project that I made on that, it was basically vulnerability assessment and penetration testing on a dummy website.
• He-Can you please explain what is cross sites scripting?
• Me- I explain the cross side scripting with the help of the PPT that I made and give an example.
• He- what is the difference between cross side scripting and Cross-site request forgery?
• Me- I explain to him with the help of the example mentioned in my ppt. He was satisfied with my answer
• He- do you know for what role you have been interviewed for and how is it different from software engineer role?
• Me- it was a new role so I had studied about it and also stated the difference between SE and DSE.
• He- okay so you know for what role you have been interviewed so that’s great to know, let’s go back to your resume, have you made any projects in Ai or machine learning?
• Me- no sir, I just did the internship on those topics and currently we are preparing a project on machine learning which is in the initial stages so it’s not complete.
• He- okay no problem you are in semester 7 so I understand you are currently preparing the final year project so that’s fine okay let’s go back to your ethical hacking project i’ll give you a scenario and you have to explain to me the steps that you will take while doing the penetration testing.
• Me-ok
• He- assumes the Flipkart login page is a Vulnerability. Tell me the steps that you would take in order to find out the Vulnerability.
• He- explained the steps properly and he was satisfied with me.
• He- okay okay so let’s do a programming question now the programming question is as follows. If the input is aaabb then the output should be a3b2. If the input is aabbbb then the output should be a2b4.
• Me- I explained the logic which was missing one minor case which he pointed out and then I further explained. you can refer to the solution here. https://code2break.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/zoho-problem-4-a2b3/
• He-Okay I am satisfied with your solution anyways you have cleared 2 rounds of programming contest in order to reach to interview so you have that much logic.
• When was your programming round?
• Me- I told him the months in which the programming rounds took place.
• He- tell me briefly about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning and highlight the differences between them.
• He- I first gave the definition of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning and explained the correlation between them and then explained the advantages and disadvantages of all three and also gave real-life examples associated with them.
• He- you explained all of three very nicely I am very satisfied with your answer lastly what do you know about Infosys?
• Me- I started with the history of Infosys and the Founder, current CEO, the main business they do, their clients, no of employees, etc
• Me- okay perfect you have a fair knowledge of the company you are going to work for. so that’s it for the interview.do you want to ask anything?
• Me-yes sir, kindly tell me more about dse profile, the domains we will get to work on, etc.
• He explained. any other questions?
• Me-no sir
• He-ok then, have a nice day
• Me- same to you sir bye-bye thank you

Result -I got selected.

tip-be confident in the interview, they won’t ask tough questions since you are fresher and a college student, so the questions will be based on your resume. also, practice coding questions regularly to clear the programming rounds easily.

all the best : )