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Updated May 29, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 in Bridgewater, NJ (took a day)

Group interview 2:1. Mostly asked about my QA background and how I would solve problems posed during interview. For example, there are no Business Requirements, no specs, nothing. How would you create a test plan? 2. An object has no properties, how would you verify that the object behaves as expected in an automated test? 3. asked about my thoughts on Descriptive Programming (QTP).

As you can tell from the questions posed it sounds like they are interested in your thought process and how to derive an answer. To my surprise (or maybe not surprise) Infosys personnel (or their culture) wants a definitive approach or answer. They seem to think there is one best way to solve problems. An applicant's creative approach is not desired. For example (I'm making this up), how do you get to page 100 in a 200 page book? My answer, depends on whether the book front or back is facing you. If the back is facing you, then you flip from page 200 to page 100. Their answer. No, you flip from the front to page 100. I making this up, but you get the gist. Thinking outside the box is not appreciated.

Anyway I didn't get an offer.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

I I was interviewed by two people in Building 12. In two separate rounds. Interview was all related to verification language, methodology, protocols and SOC verification. Also included the Gate level too..
Related to verification, they asked me some questions related to code coverage, functional coverage etc.

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Why functional coverage is required when you have code coverage? Are there any shortcomings with Code coverage which are addressed by functional coverage? If so, give out the details ..

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

They started with a 1 to 1 15 minute interview round... This round was more of to know you.. what you did and whether you can fit in for some role in infosys... After that there was partner round.. and the same thing carried on

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Why Consulting?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2011 (took 2 weeks)

Got an interview call after the placement agency submitted the resume. Interview was scheduled within 10 days of submission of resume. It was a face to face interview at Infosys office on a Saturday. Upon arriving at the interview location, had to submit paper work related to release of information etc. There were about 8-10 candidates waiting in the reception area. When called in, I was led to an office and was told that the panel is on the phone for the interview. Initially, I was told that this was a face to face. Anyway, the interview lasted for about 45 minutes and was purely technical. I was then told to wait in the reception area and finally told that they would give me a feedback in couple of days. I did receive a feedback on the day they promised, which was good. Overall, the experience was ok.

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What is the role and/or expectations for this position from Infosys?

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Reston, VA (took 1+ week)

Initially phone interview was setup, then rescheduled to some other time and got the interview for an hour. Then after a week, received response that I will be called for face to face interview with HR at Reston, VA. There is no negotiation on the offer with HR. Overall, the inteview process took lot of time.

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Have you handled any difficult situation in healthcare IT?

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Negotiation Details

No.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Oct 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

It was a long 1.5 hrs call with the delivery manager covering various aspects of Domain and technical know how and understanding of my profile and past experiences. testing on some situational analysis scenarios and so on. Nowadays, however, the interview process in the SAP space has become very easy due to the mass exodus that the company has been facing. Clearing the Delivery manager round is hte main hurdle to get past the ideal CTC range asked by us. Understand that in this company, the variable pay structure means that you'd need to add in another lakh or two as buffer considering their manipulation of numbers for the three variable components.

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why is that company u worked earlier (say company name ) still doing well, or not doing well etc.. (is that product going to be viable in future ?) etc.

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Negotiation Details

I was able to negotiate very little and that too right after the Delivery manager interview only. nothing can be changed other than the joining date once the offer is sent out via email/ print because they just dont care. Its too much effort for HR to get another round of approvals all the way just cos of your negotiating up with the number they have given. Good luck!

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Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 days)

Started off with a telephonic conversation with the concerned line managers. After i was recommended, i was called for a personal interview at Hyderabad, where the interaction (it was more of a casual chat than an interview) lasted for about an hour's time with the practice head.

soon after, within another 15 days, i was handed out the offer letter for joining.

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Why do you want to leave the existing organisation and join us?

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Negotiation Details

This has been the ugliest phase. I have worked with them earlier in 2004-05, and back then this was a honest company that didnt pay differential pay to its employees. True, it was a stingy, miserly company that bloated up the compensations by including several variable components; but then the packages were uniform all across.

However, this time, after they implemented the iRACE program internally and left everyone confused; the designation and packages have become all the more confusing. They offered me a Senior consultant's role for my 7+ years' experience. Going by 2005 hierarchies, this sounded ok (a band E role - in terms of the designation). However, i soon realised that my the bands were totally re-written, and this designation was lying at the same band where i had left infy 5 years ago - band C!!!

Now they map people and their roles to a 'numberic; system ranging from 1-9 or something. I was offered a band 5, while my peers - who had joined with me - were at band 6! In other words, after having spent 5 years in the industry trying to gather the much needed functional expertise that infy can never provide, they were wanting to take me at a lower level than what i originally was at!!!!

I did accept the offer initially, assuming them to be as transparent and honest as they were 6 years ago....but i soon realised that this is not the same company as i had left. They gave all lame excuses for not giving me a band 6, and tried to ensure i end up joining at the lower band - and foresake my promotions for a good 2-3 years.

I havent yet joined them, will do so in Apr-10; however with this nonsense going on, i have no intentions of coming on board.