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Infosys Specialist Programmer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 20 Jan 2025

Top Infosys Specialist Programmer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. 1. Find the first occurrence of the target value in a sorted array. (Duplicates are allowed)
  • Q2. 2. Find the maximum subarray sum given an array with positive and negative integers.
  • Q3. Which are the process scheduling algorithms and explain each algorithm.
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Infosys Specialist Programmer Interview Experiences

88 interviews found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai and was interviewed before Feb 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

First round is DSA round in which 3 questions are given.

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Interview was for 1 hour and in the first half I was given a coding question then I was asked questions on java and spring boot and my previous project exp.
  • Q2. Write a code to find next palindrome in O(1)
  • Ans. 

    Code to find next palindrome in O(1)

    • Check if the number is already a palindrome, if yes then add 1 to it

    • If the number is not a palindrome, split it into two halves and reverse the first half

    • If the reversed first half is greater than the second half, append the first half to the second half

    • If the reversed first half is less than or equal to the second half, increment the first half and append it to the second half

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Infosys Specialist Programmer interview:
  • DSA
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brush up DSA skills and be prepared with any one technology of your choice

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Oct 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Its all about data structures and practice.

Round 2 - HR 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  • Q2. Why do you want to join us
  • Q3. Tell me about your college life
  • Q4. How did you manage everything
  • Q5. Your academics and your skills doest not match why so?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interviewer is a human not a robot, make him feel friendly and light, cross question about his or her experience and end interview with a good smile and bye.

Specialist Programmer Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

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Q4. What is deadlock in OS & how it overcome?
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Q5. Write a SQL query to print n'th highest salary with full details

I applied via campus placement at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUST) and was interviewed in Apr 2021. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. I was asked about my Academic Projects and the different technologies I have worked on. Then I was some terminologies used in Java Programming. Then I was asked to share my screen and solve two coding Prob...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be thorough with the basic concepts and have sound knowledge of coding. Be honest and the interviewer will only ask what is mentioned in the CV so prepare your resume well.

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati and was interviewed before Jun 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

The Coding test is on hacker earth platform.
There were three questions one easy (light bulb switch alternative ) , one medium, one hard.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Search an element in sorted 2d matrix.
  • Ans. 

    Search an element in sorted 2d matrix.

    • Start from the top right corner or bottom left corner and move towards the target element

    • If the current element is greater than target, move left. If it's smaller, move down

    • Repeat until target is found or all elements are traversed

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. I don't remember but one dp question from interview bit.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round was about my projects and some oops concept questions . Interviewer and I'm from both ece so some basic ece questions to check my understanding on concepts.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Infosys Specialist Programmer interview:
  • Dynamic programming
  • Arrays
  • Binary search
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through basic concepts and the interview will be based on how do you approach the problem.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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 Programmer Analyst Trainee

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 (1)

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and was interviewed before Jul 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

There were total 3 questions and platform was hacker earth.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1st question from dp and question was about to decode given string
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions from my resume about my project and all, questions from dbms oops etc.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Hi every hope you are doing good and my advice would be that you should know what’s in your resume and oops os dbms and of course coding questions level from easy to medium from leet code or gfg. Good luck

Get interview-ready with Top Infosys Interview Questions

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Frequency of elements in an array
  • Ans. 

    Count the frequency of elements in an array.

    • Iterate through the array and use a hash table to keep track of the frequency of each element.

    • Alternatively, use a dictionary in Python or a map in C++ to achieve the same result.

    • If the array is sorted, you can use binary search to find the first and last occurrence of each element and calculate the frequency.

    • Time complexity can be improved to O(n) using a modified counting s

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Mar 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Memory sorting Code with given 3 RAMs and quantity of data present in them.
  • Ans. 

    Sorting code for given 3 RAMs and data quantity

    • Determine the size of each RAM and the quantity of data in them

    • Choose a sorting algorithm based on the size of data and available RAM

    • Divide the data into chunks that can fit into the available RAM

    • Sort each chunk using the chosen algorithm

    • Merge the sorted chunks into a single sorted list

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Write a code to convert camel casing to snake casing and vice versa.
  • Ans. 

    Code to convert camel casing to snake casing and vice versa.

    • For camel to snake case, iterate through the string and add '_' before every uppercase letter except the first one.

    • For snake to camel case, iterate through the string and remove '_' and capitalize the letter after it.

    • Handle edge cases like consecutive uppercase letters or underscores in the input string.

    • Use built-in string functions like split(), join(), and r

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - To be a Specialist Programmer Be good with the algorithms . Language won't matter as long as you can write a good quality algorithms.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Design a path for visiting all popular places of your city.
  • Ans. 

    Design a path for visiting all popular places of your city.

    • Identify all popular places in the city

    • Group them based on their proximity to each other

    • Create a route that covers all groups in an efficient manner

    • Consider transportation options and time of day

    • Include breaks for meals and rest

    • Test the route to ensure it is feasible and enjoyable

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There was 2 programming problems. One was a simple implementation question and one was similar to Hungry Fish Logic or first question from this link: -----.
Tips: Generally they are too lazy to build new ques for each college so try to know what they asked in other IITs. Apart from that practice on Codeforces or hackerrank for similar greedy and DP ques.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 2

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Given 30 min to think and implement the above question from scratch, followed by long discussion on pros, cons and scope of improvement in the solution you provide. Then few random technical ques from OS, DS and Algo and Java.
Tips: Be clear with your approach and express it well through examples and corner cases. Be confident and come up with some innovative ideas (as they expect).

Round: HR Interview
Experience: General HR questions mere a formality.
Tips: Prepare general HR questions like why infosys, where do you want to see after 5 years down the line.

Infosys Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Infosys Specialist Programmer interview?
Infosys interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Infosys interview process are Coding Test, Technical and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for Infosys Specialist Programmer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Infosys. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Infosys expect are Microservices, Java, Agile, HTML and Python.
What are the top questions asked in Infosys Specialist Programmer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Infosys Specialist Programmer interview -

  1. 1. Find the first occurrence of the target value in a sorted array. (Duplicates...read more
  2. 2. Find the maximum subarray sum given an array with positive and negative inte...read more
  3. Which are the process scheduling algorithms and explain each algorit...read more
How long is the Infosys Specialist Programmer interview process?

The duration of Infosys Specialist Programmer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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Infosys Specialist Programmer Interview Process

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  • Technical Round - 1
  • Technical Round - 2
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