Placement Preparedness Guide: INFOSYS

Infosys, the Indian multinational corporation is recruiting engineering freshers for years and visits most of the college campuses. Before the recruitment process it’s important to get an overview of the company profile, test pattern and interview styles. The SkillWiz team resourced all the data from students who appeared the process and this will definitely help you to get placed in your dream company.

Infosys limited was established in the year 1981 with its headquarters in Bengaluru, India. Infosys provides business consultancy, information technology and out sourcing services to its clients. The company has more than 160,000+ employees.

Infosys is known to provide software development, maintenance and independent validation services to companies in banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing and other domains. Finacle, one of its well-known products provides universal banking solution with various components for retail and corporate banking. Key products of Infosys includes:

NIA- Next Generation Integrated AI Platform (MANA)
Infosys Information Platform
EdgeVerve Systems
Finacle- Global Banking Platform
Panaya Cloud Suite
Skava

Some of the major acquisitions by Infosys till date includes Australia-based IT service provider Expert Information, Atlanta-based McCamish Systems, Australia-based Portland Group, Switzerland-based Lodestone Management Consultants, Panaya Inc, Skava, Noah-Consulting- the recent amongst all.

OVERVIEW OF THE TEST AND APTITUDE SEGMENTS TO BE COVERED:

Infosys divides the selection process in two stages. These stages are:

Written test
Personal Interview(Technical + HR)

Written Round

The test consists of three sections:

Quantitative aptitude(10 questions, 35 minutes)
Reasoning ability (15 questions, 25 minutes)
Verbal ability (40 questions, 35 minutes)

There are sectional cut-offs but no negative marking.

Section wise analysis:

Quantitative aptitude:

This section checks your problem solving ability and analytical skills.
The questions majorly come from number system, algebra, permutation combination, time, speed and distance, time and work and probability.
The best way to ace the paper is to solve with full concentration and manage time as the questions can be a bit time consuming.

Verbal ability:

This final section will check your grammar and comprehension skills.
Topics for this section include vocabulary, grammar, synonyms and antonyms comprehension passage, and critical reasoning.
Again time management is the key. Read the passages carefully so that you can same time for other questions. Knowledge of English is the key. If English is not your strongest point, start preparing immediately.
Questions are not tough, but they are confusing as all the options may seem similar to you. Focus on your spoken English skills because they are the key to crack this section.
In the comprehensions, 1 passage is long and another is short. Leave the long passage for the end but try to attempt the short one first, because you might not get enough time to read two passages in the end. Most people don’t get shortlisted because of underperforming in this section.

Sample questions:

1. There is a 5 digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the number.

Ans: 25296.

2. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train?

Ans: 60 kmph

3. Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On the other days they tell the truth. You are given a conversation. Person A– today is Sunday my name is Anil Person B — today is Tuesday, my name is Bill. What day is today?

Ans: Today is Tuesday

Directions 4-8: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:

(A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question

(B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question

(C) Both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient (D) each statement alone is sufficient

(D) Statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question

4. If x and y are both positive integers, how much greater is x than y? I. x + y = 20 II. x = y²

Ans: C 7.

5. Fifty percent of the articles in a certain magazine are written by staff members. Sixty percent of the articles are on current affairs. If 75 percent of the articles on current affairs are written by staff members with more than 5 years’ experience of journalism, how many of the articles on current affairs are written by journalists with more than 5 years’ experience?

20 articles are written by staff members.

Of the articles on topics other than current affairs, 50 percent are by staff members with less than 5 years’ experience.

Ans: A

6. Is xy > 0? I. x/y < 0 II. x + y < 0

Ans: A

7. One number, n, is selected at random from a set of 10 integers. What is the probability that ½ n + 13 = 0 ?

1. The largest integer in the set is 13.

2. The arithmetic mean of the set is zero?

Ans: E

8. Is w a whole number?

1. 3w is an odd number.

2. 2w is an even number.

Ans: B

Directions (Question 11 to 14): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.

There are six friends A, B, C, D, E and F

Each one is proficient in one of the games, namely Badminton, Volleyball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis and Polo.
Each owns a different coloured car, namely yellow, green, black, white, blue and red.
D plays Polo and owns a yellow coloured car
C does not play either Tennis or Hockey and owns neither blue nor yellow coloured car
E owns a white car and plays Badminton.
B does not play Tennis, he owns a red coloured car.
A plays Cricket and owns a black car

9. Who plays Volleyball?

A) B
B) C
C) F
D) Data inadequate
E) None of these

10. Which coloured car F owns?

A) Green
B) Blue
C) Black – Cricket
D) Data inadequate
E) None of these

11. Which of the following combinations of color of car and game played is not correct?

A) Yellow – Polo
B) Green – Tennis
C) Black – Cricket
D) Red- Hockey
None of these

12. In a group of six women, there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists.

If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is both a dancer and violinist?

A) Jalaja
B) Shailaja
C) Tanuja
D) Pooja

PERSONAL INTERVIEW (Technical + HR):

Quick tips:

Main focus on technical knowledge
Questions based on project/internship
Basic coding on C/C++/Java

Interview questions:

SET 1:

Introduce yourself.
Which subjects have you prepared?
Tell me the difference between procedural & object oriented language.
Write a program of overriding?
What is inheritance?
What is DBMS? Properties of DBMS.
What are the stages of SDLC?
Write a C program to count the number of Strings.
What question do you have for us?

SET 2:

Tell me about yourself and your college.
Why do you want to join Infosys?
What is SDLC cycle? Different stages of it.
Explain operation and maintenance stage.
In which language you are comfortable.
Write code for Fibonacci series.
Tell me about your project.

SET 3:

Tell me about yourself.
What is your favourite subject?
What is a pointer?
What is great in C? Why?
What is operating system?
What is big data?
What is IOT?
What are the differences b/w C++ and Java?
Explain the projects mentioned in your resume.

SET 4(Stress interview):

How many Engg schools are there in your campus?
What is the strength of E&TC branch in your college?
What is polymorphism?
Are you sure that answer which you have given is right?
You told your guitarist, but not mentioned participation of any event in?
Why IT company?
Which are the upcoming companies?
Do you have any friends/seniors in Accenture?
What is Package Accenture offering?
What Infosys is offering? (Mentioned package of Accenture is more than Infosys)
Then why do you want to join Infosys? Go for Accenture.
Now give me an honest answer, I am interviewer of Accenture. Now tell me which company do you want to join?
Do you know what exactly Infosys do?
Questions from your side?

SET 5:

Tell me something about yourself?
What is ACID property?
Why your % is so less in B.Tech?
What is encapsulation and polymorphism?
What is 3NF in DBMS?
What is join in database?
What is pass by value and pass by reference?
What is class and interface in Java?
Design a login form using HTML.
We asked to connect it with database and fetches value from it?
Perform operation on string “ROHIT” and print it vertically.
Create a linked list.
What is insertion sort and complexity?
What is SDLC and Agile methodology?
What do you know about torrent?
Why should I hire you?
Prove that you are a hard working person?

SET 6(For electronics students):

How many Engg schools are there in your campus?
What is the strength of E&TC branch in your college?
What is polymorphism?
Are you sure that answer which you have given is right?
You told your guitarist, but not mentioned participation of any event in?
Why IT company?
Which are the upcoming companies?
Do you have any friends/seniors in Accenture?
What is Package Accenture offering?
What Infosys is offering? (Mentioned package of Accenture is more than Infosys)
Then why do you want to join Infosys? Go for Accenture.
Now give me an honest answer, I am interviewer of Accenture. Now tell me which company do you want to join?
Do you know what exactly Infosys do?
Questions from your side?

Some general tips that can help you to crack Infosys recruitment drive are shared below:

Be thorough with your resume and expect questions based on what you have mentioned.
Be thorough with your project.
Be prepared with domain based technical question.
Have knowledge about the company’s services.
Be confident.

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