Excited to share my Specialist Programmer (SP) interview journey at Infosys Ltd, Noida.

📌 Step 1: Online Coding Test – 3 Hours

The assessment had 3 DSA problems of increasing difficulty:

1️⃣ Queue + Greedy (Medium)

2️⃣ DP + GCD (Medium-Hard)

3️⃣ DP + HashMap + Prime Factorization (Hard)

📌 Step 2: The Technical Interview – But First, Another Coding Test! 🤯

In previous years, Infosys interviews began directly without any assessments at their office. However, this time, they introduced a live online coding assessment before the actual interview, conducted at their office. Additionally, for the first time, candidates were asked to prepare and present a PPT as part of the process. So ,Upon arriving at the Infosys Noida campus, I was required to take another live coding assessment on the their platform. However, there was a twist- it had to be completed in front of the interviewer!😮

2 coding problems (Medium to Hard difficulty)

💡Problem 1: DP/BFS

💡Problem 2: Binary Tree

Choose any one question and I had 40 minutes to implement the solution.

Once I completed this assessment, my interview began immediately!🚀

1️⃣Self-Introduction & PPT Presentation

The interviewer started the discussion by asking me to introduce myself and present the PPT

2️⃣Since my specialization is AI, the interviewer was curious about:

✅ Why did I choose AI?

✅ How have I used AI technology in my projects?

✅ Core AI concepts with real-world applications

3️⃣Since I mentioned Java as my primary programming language💻

✅ OOPs Concepts with real-world examples (I used a Banking System analogy)

✅Interfaces in Java

✅Call by Value/Call by Reference

✅Memory Management

✅Why doesn’t Java support Multiple Inheritance?

4️⃣Internship Discussion- The interviewer asked me in-depth questions about my internships:

✅What projects did I work on?

✅What technologies did I use?

5️⃣Projects Discussion – A Surprising Turn!

I was ready for deep technical questions about my projects, but surprisingly, the interviewer was satisfied with just the problem statement and its real-world impact!

✨Lesson: Sometimes, the ability to identify and solve real-world problems is just as important as the tech stack!

6️⃣Coding Discussion- This part was all about my problem-solving approach:

✅Explain my approach to the problem I solved in the pre-interview assessment

✅Discuss time and space complexity

✅Write a recursive Fibonacci function and analyze its time and space complexity

7️⃣My Turn to Ask!

I inquired about technologies to focus on before joining, and the interviewer shared key industry trends.

My Final Thoughts- The process was structured, engaging, and insightful. The interviewer made it feel more like a discussion than an evaluation.

A huge thanks to Infosys for this opportunity! If you're preparing for this role, I hope this experience helps.

Good luck🍀

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