Types of Interviews Conducted by Infosys for SP & DSE

Infosys SP and DSE – Overview

Infosys hires Specialist Programmer (SP) and Digital Specialist Engineer (DSE) roles through On-Campus and Off-Campus drives.

What Infosys Expects

• Strong coding skills
• Good understanding of CS fundamentals (DBMS, OS, OOPS, CN)
• Hands-on project experience
• Debugging and problem-solving mindset
• Ability to write optimized and clean code

Types of Interviews Conducted by Infosys for SP & DSE

After the online coding assessment, Infosys conducts two interview rounds.
Sometimes both rounds are combined into a single interview.

1. Technical Interview (TR)

Focus areas:

• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Coding questions (Live coding on shared screen)
• OOPS, DBMS, OS, CN
• Project deep-dive questions
• Frameworks, tech stack used in resume
• Internship / experience details (if any)
• System design (mostly for SP)

Example things they may ask:

• Write code to reverse a linked list
• Implement hash map
• Explain your project architecture and database design
• Time and space complexity

For SP, technical depth is very high
For DSE, development and deployment topics are asked more

2. HR Interview

Focus areas:

• Personality and communication
• Fit for the role and company
• Career goals & relocation
• Salary expectations
• Teamwork and workplace behavior

Common questions:

• Tell me about yourself
• Why do you want to join Infosys?
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Are you willing to relocate?
• Tell me about a challenge you faced in a project

Quick Summary

In some drives, TR + HR are merged into one interview of 45–90 minutes.