Infosys Written Test Pattern and HR Interview: 2026 Guide

Infosys runs three distinct hiring tracks in 2026 (SE, SP, and PP), and which one you target shapes both your written test format and your preparation focus. Starting packages sit at ₹3.6 LPA, ₹6.5 LPA, and ₹9.5 LPA respectively, as confirmed in Q4 FY26 CEO commentary.

What changed in the 2026 Infosys recruitment cycle

The single most important shift from the early 2020s to 2026: Infosys moved from a single fresher track to three distinct tracks, each with its own test intensity and package.

Track	Starting CTC	Selection criteria
System Engineer (SE)	₹3.6 LPA	Aptitude test, technical interview, HR interview
Specialist Programmer (SP)	₹6.5 LPA	Harder coding section, DSA-focused technical round; InfyTQ certification holders preferred
Power Programmer (PP)	₹9.5 LPA	HackWithInfy top performers; 7.5+ CGPA; InfyTQ required

InfyTQ is Infosys’s own learning and certification platform. It is free to use, and completing its certifications is the most direct path to SP-track consideration. The platform covers programming fundamentals, data structures, and project-based assessments. For students from ECE, EEE, or mechanical backgrounds who have not had a formal DSA course, InfyTQ is also the fastest way to fill that gap before the aptitude test.

According to Salil Parekh’s Q4 FY26 earnings commentary, Infosys onboarded 20,000 freshers in FY26 and plans the same intake for FY27. The same commentary confirmed that Infosys now offers different starting compensation for candidates with skills more attuned to AI. That is not a vague signal: it maps directly to the PP track’s structure and to the forward-deployed engineers pool Infosys is actively building.

The written test: structure, sections, and timing

The Infosys online test uses a shared aptitude block for all three tracks. The SP and PP tracks add a pseudo-code section on top of the standard three.

Section	Typical questions	Time	Tracks
Mathematical Ability	15	25 min	SE, SP, PP
Reasoning Ability	10–15	25 min	SE, SP, PP
Verbal Ability	15–20	20–25 min	SE, SP, PP
Pseudo-code	5–10	10–20 min	SP, PP only

No negative marking applies across any section. A wrong answer and a blank carry the same score, so there is no reason to leave a question unattempted.

The test is adaptive in format. Question counts can vary slightly between test versions, which is why the table shows ranges for some sections. What does not vary is the topic mix within each section.

For timed practice using real past paper formats, the Infosys placement papers archive covers both the older three-section format and the current structure.

What each section actually tests

Mathematical ability

• 15 questions, 25 minutes (100 seconds per question, which is generous by IT aptitude-test standards)

Topic mix, from most to least frequent:

• Percentages and profit/loss
• Time, speed, and distance
• Averages and ratios
• Simple and compound interest
• Number series
• Pipes and cisterns
• Mixtures and alligation

Time pressure in this section is lower than in logical reasoning. The 100-second average is enough to solve all standard question types without shortcuts, but number series questions can eat time if you chase a pattern that is not there. Set a 45-second ceiling per number series question; move on and return later.

Logical reasoning

• 10–15 questions, 25 minutes (tighter per-question time than mathematical ability)

The full logical reasoning practice set for Infosys covers all pattern types in detail. High-frequency topics:

• Data arrangements (linear, circular, and complex)
• Syllogisms
• Direction sense and blood relations
• Coding-decoding and analogies

Puzzle-based arrangement questions take longer per question than pattern recognition types. Read the question type in the first five seconds and sequence your attempts by speed, not by the order they appear on screen.

Verbal ability

• 15–20 questions, 20–25 minutes

Grammar and comprehension dominate. Topics:

• Sentence correction
• Fill in the blanks (vocabulary and grammar)
• Reading comprehension passages
• Cloze tests

Verbal is the section where preparation quality has the widest spread across candidates. Freshers from English-medium colleges with regular reading habits clear this comfortably. For students from regional-medium backgrounds, grammar fundamentals from Class 11/12 level address sentence correction, cloze tests, and fill-in-the-blanks reliably. Reading comprehension speed is a trainable skill; practising one passage per day in the month before the test is enough to see a measurable improvement.

Pseudo-code (SP and PP tracks only)

• 5–10 questions, 10–20 minutes
• Tests reading comprehension of logic, not syntax knowledge

A pseudo-code question gives a short block of logic using plain-English constructs (IF, FOR, WHILE) and asks for the output given specific inputs. No programming language is required. The skill is tracing execution mentally. Practise with paper: write out a few made-up for-loop and if-else blocks and trace them line by line. After 10 to 15 such exercises, the pattern becomes fast.

HR interview: what Infosys asks freshers in 2026

The HR round follows the technical interview. For SE-track candidates, it is often combined into one session. For SP and PP candidates, the technical and HR rounds are typically separate.

Five questions appear in nearly every Infosys HR interview:

Tell me about yourself. Structure it as: degree, branch, college, two or three technical strengths with brief examples, and one sentence about why Infosys. Keep the whole response under 90 seconds. Practice it conversationally, not from memory. Reading a prepared script shows immediately.

What does Infosys do? More candidates than you would expect answer this vaguely. The safe frame: Infosys provides technology consulting and IT services to clients across financial services, insurance, retail, and manufacturing. It is also one of the companies actively building large-scale AI solutions for enterprise clients. Demonstrate that you did basic research.

What are your strengths and weaknesses? One of each, backed by a real example. A strength without evidence is a claim; a strength with an example from a project or internship is a data point. Weaknesses framed as “I work too hard” land poorly. A specific skill gap being actively addressed (for example, working through system design because college coursework covered only algorithms) is more credible and more memorable.

Why Infosys, and why not leave after six months? Connect your direction to a specific Infosys service line or career path. The SP track is a natural hook if you have InfyTQ certifications to reference. Commitment to a specific learning trajectory within Infosys is more convincing than generic loyalty statements.

Where do you see yourself in five years? Give a direction, not a title. “Contributing to AI-client delivery projects at Infosys” is more specific and credible than “I want to be a senior engineer.” For deeper technical interview preparation across DSA, coding, and project questions, the Infosys interview guide for freshers covers all three rounds in full.

AI-attuned skills and the 2026 compensation picture

Salil Parekh’s Q4 FY26 earnings commentary gave freshers two specific signals: Infosys offers different starting compensation for candidates with skills more attuned to AI, and the company is building a pool of forward-deployed engineers to do AI solution work directly with clients.

The term “forward-deployed engineers” is not branding. It describes a role type where engineers sit closer to client problems, building and deploying AI solutions rather than maintaining existing systems. That is a different skill profile from the standard SE entry, and it is the profile Infosys is actively building a pool around.

For freshers targeting the SP or PP tracks, the implication is concrete. InfyTQ covers the coding baseline. Adding a working LLM project on a public GitHub repository demonstrates the forward-deployment profile. Two such projects are more persuasive in a technical interview than a stack of completion certificates.

Infosys’s forward-deployed engineers pool signals exactly which AI skills the company is hiring toward. TinkerLLM at ₹299 is where to confirm that you can actually ship something with an LLM before committing to a longer programme. That hands-on distinction matters when SP and PP interviewers probe project depth.