
“As a fresher and an engineering graduate, the dream of all the students in our batch was to join one of the IT giants. Her detailed reply to this dejected candidate is something everyone who’s faced failure in life should read, Infosys or otherwise. Priya Swaminathan was one such Infosys aspirant who’d been selected for the company’s training program but failed to make the cut. But when a person asked on Quora if there was “any hope for his future after failing Infosys’ training exam”, this one answer stood out. Some people go as far as to consider it as the end of the road for their careers.

Failing the test can abort one’s dreams of working at the tech giant. The training is arduous, and the qualifying test at the end of it is not easy, so not everyone gets through. Infosys training centre, Mysore | Image: the Hindu For this, the company provides an on-campus, residential and paid training program for 6 months. However, before the selected candidates can officially call Infosys their employer, they must learn the technologies Infosys works on.

So, when a handful (and by that we means a few hundred) of those applicants are selected to work in the company, it’s the career equivalent of hitting a jackpot. A job at Infosys comes with a brand name, an above average salary, opportunity to get a project abroad, and perks of a global MNC.

With over 10 campuses and training centres, and nearly 2 lakh employees across India, it’s one of the biggest IT companies not only in India, but across the world. Every year, thousands of fresh engineering graduates apply to work at the IT giant that is Infosys.
