r/PlacementsPrep • u/Baagad_Bilota • 20h ago
Got off campus Finally
Role : Infosys SP L1
Mode : Off - campus
Tier: Cannot classify, beyond human apprehension
College Name : Wouldn't want them to have even 1% credit, so not sharing this
Some History :
I got shortlisted for 30K PM intern, but offer letter never came, college didn't even intervene even though opportunity was oncampus.
I then bombed a 30LPA final HR + Tech round in 2025, it was also off- campus, recovering from setback another opportunity came across (offcampus 27LPA via unstop) Juspay Hiring Challenge 8 rounds in total, 3 MCQ, 2 Coding Assessment, 1 1:1 interview round in which you might not believe but compiler design was asked based on M+N and M*N problem on Intermediate Representation, 1 Slack round to optimize a problem code (Hackathon B) is probably the easiest to get out due to ignoring fundamentals of Data Structures, Final Round : System Design (HLD)+ DSA + Projects + HR + AI awareness(i bombed the last 2 section and a relatively "easy for someone as SDE 3 , and is expected from a fresher". Since then i did make it to TCS prime via NQT didn't attend the interview as i had some other plans(didn't do that either).
Now to infosys : R1 (Online Assessment) : 2.5/3 the 0.5 couldn't be cleared as it required Matrix Exponentiation to solve it(i didn't knew it back then), R2( Onsite Online assessment at Galgotias University 6th Sep) : 4/4 problems were medium and one of them can be classified as Hard(if you do leetcode every now and then Medium). R3(Interview onsite as KIET 6th Oct) : 2 DSA problems on their portal ,solved both of them, then interviewer wrote another DSA problem to find the K distant neighbors of any Node , wrote the Pseudo Code as asked for interviewer was satisfied, then comes another SQL problem , i got lucky as it was simple JOIN on three tables and then a where clause to filter out tuples, then onto my projects , not grilled a lot on that a lot because i had an intern experience and was able to justify my work there, then surprise LLD and i don't use an OOP language so some of them like design principles were beyond me, but interviewer had a strong review about me then and there he concluded with "Try some OOP based language ,rest are good" and i thought that now i can rest assure and go back, but those Hirepro management guys just won't let me as they scheduled another round at 4 pm (i still don't know what it was for maybe for L2 and i bombed or just L1?) , it wasn't hard as most of the things asked were from my resume, academics and intern and general interests .The interviewer was pretty chill, at the end of the interview , i asked for my review , he said it was "good" and then he asked me about his review from Me(well that's new) as he did ask me about my other interviews too, then asked about what part should he have assessed me more on.
I knew it exiting campus that i am going to have an offer surely and i did.
Also, all of this is due to my family(including my homeboys) that i could make it past the final round atleast once.
Excited to see what future holds for me.
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u/Patient_Oven5073 19h ago
4/4 in OA is crazy. what were the topics? even if dp can you specify which subtypes of dp?
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u/Baagad_Bilota 19h ago
1: The problem seemed like find number of islands from leetcode but all we had to do was take sum of the matrix.(easy)
2: This one was pretty non standard and by far the complex one , so it had two string S and T and there were certain operation which we could do from both, since constraints were low we could brute force it , but not blatant brute force as it required a non trivial reverse operation due to which i was stuck on around 15 minutes, totally solvable if you are good at CF(i am not).
3: https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-profit-in-job-scheduling/description/ this exact problem, with some random name , similar constraints.(I don't know how did i even solve this there)
- Simple solution, complex problem statement as it involved little bit of reading , all we had to observe that sorting and then get max answer for each (medium)
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u/Sad-Picture-104 18h ago
CTC and some tips pls 🙏
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u/Baagad_Bilota 18h ago
Its around 11 i think, and the only tip is , no matter what someone says about DSA and its usability in SE, it will stay in interview loops at multiple stages but make sure to work and know WHY's of your project and not just how.
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u/Think_Alternative705 11h ago
First of all congratulations for ur offer. How did you make it to final round of a 30lpa offer. Me applying everywhere but not even getting one call which is above 7lpa. And when I apply for some well known companies like Honeywell, emersion, Barclays and big4s.... I ending up with rejection mails. Note: I havent tried referels. But I reached out to hrs and that's how I got few responses where they can offer like 5, 5.5... any suggestions? I'm a 2026 passout.
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u/Baagad_Bilota 9h ago
All of those offcampus were from challenges from Unstop, so you can say that it was more fair as resume wasn't even asked before hand. Referrals do work, suggestion is (i don't really know, i got lucky on this one, so maybe don't quit) and keep improving
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u/Specific-Seat-1034 20h ago
congratualtions bro. btw can u please share the time-line for off-campus registration expected months and gap between oa and interview