HackWithInfy 2027: Eligibility, Rounds, Prizes and Dates
HackWithInfy is Infosys's free national hackathon for pre-final-year engineering and MCA students. Registration usually opens in early February through your placement officer.
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HackWithInfy is Infosys's national coding hackathon for engineering and MCA students. It is free, and finalists get the chance of a pre-placement interview for Infosys's Specialist Programmer and other specialised roles.
Status on 30 October 2026: the 2026 edition (for students graduating in 2027) has finished its qualifying rounds, and Infosys lists the Grand Finale for November 2026. Registration for the next edition isn't open. In both 2025 and 2026 it opened on 6 February, so expect early February 2027, most likely for the 2028 batch.
HackWithInfy at a glance
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Run by | Infosys |
| Who can apply | Pre-final-year students only (2026: graduating 2027) |
| Degrees | B.E., B.Tech, M.E., M.Tech, Dual Degree, MS (Research), MCA, 5-year integrated M.Sc |
| Fee | Free |
| How to register | Through your college placement officer, then an Infosys survey form |
| Rounds | Round 1 and Round 2 (3-hour coding tests), then a 4-day Grand Finale |
| 2026 prizes | USD 3,300 / 1,650 / 1,100 |
| Next registration | Expected early February 2027 |
| Official page | infosys.com/careers/hackwithinfy |
Eligibility
- Only one batch per edition: the 2025 edition took students graduating in 2026, and the 2026 edition those graduating in 2027.
- Degrees: B.E., B.Tech, M.E., M.Tech, Dual Degree, MS (Research), MCA or 5-year integrated M.Sc. No branch restriction is stated.
- 18 or older on the day you register, and resident in India.
- One account per participant. Employees of Infosys and its agencies, and their families, can't take part.
- Free: Infosys says no fee is charged before or after the event.
You can't sign up directly on the website. Your college placement officer registers students, and you then fill in an Infosys survey form. If your college isn't sharing the link, write to hackwithinfy@infosys.com.
Rounds and format
| Stage | 2026 edition |
|---|---|
| Round 1 | March 2026: 3-hour online coding test on the Infosys Assessment Platform |
| Round 2 | April to May 2026: 3-hour coding test, held face to face |
| Grand Finale | November 2026: top 100 in teams formed by Infosys, a 4-day event with a 40-hour hackathon |
Selection for the finale uses your score, sectional cut-offs, test cases passed and the efficiency of your code. The questions are competitive-programming style with large constraints; Infosys publishes a sample question PDF, and its "Level Up" YouTube sessions walk through them.
Prizes and roles
| Edition | Winner | 1st runner-up | 2nd runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | USD 3,300 | USD 1,650 | USD 1,100 |
| 2025 | ₹3,00,000 | ₹1,50,000 | ₹1,00,000 |
| 2024 | ₹2,00,000 | ₹1,00,000 | ₹50,000 |
Infosys also gives a "Champion of Champions" award to the best individual coder. Beyond prizes, Infosys says participants can get pre-placement interviews for the Specialist Programmer role "and other roles in the specialised units", plus internship chances. Infosys doesn't publish salaries for these roles; news reports on its off-campus drive put Specialist Programmer at ₹11 LPA to ₹21 LPA and Digital Specialist Engineer at ₹7 LPA. See the monthly in-hand pay: Infosys SP L1, Infosys DSE.
What changed over the years
- Registration moved from InfyTQ (2022) to placement officers and an Infosys survey form (2025 onwards).
- 2022 was open to three batches; since 2025 it's one pre-final batch.
- 2026 added a second 3-hour round, held face to face, before the finale.
- Prizes rose from ₹2 lakh for the winner (2022, 2024) to ₹3 lakh (2025), and are listed in US dollars in 2026 as the programme went international.
More contests that lead to jobs: hackathons and hiring challenges. Current Infosys openings are on talentd.
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