Welcome to Infosys!
Internship program preparing you to lead in the Flat World
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InStep Snapshot: 2008-09
• Recruited 175 Interns from 95 universities
• 37 different nationalities represented
• Gender Ratio – Male to Female: 67% to 33%
• Stream Wise breakup
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Liberal Arts: 23%
Technology: 61%
Business: 17%
• Several articles on InStep in national and international media
• Interns interacted with Infosys Co-Founders and Unit Heads
through workshops & networking events
• 670+ InStep alumns
• Fulltime offers made:
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Senior Analyst, Business Analyst (Consulting)
Software Engineer, SETLabs
Associate, HRD
“I came to work for Infosys in India to live the emerging market experience. Infosys gave me the opportunity to work on a high impact project as a
member of a global, preeminent emerging market institution.”
- Melissa Wilcox, MBA Student, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Program Structure
ABOUT INSTEP:
The Instep program, seeks to engage top talent from leading academic institutions around the world
work on projects of strategic relevance to Infosys for a duration between 4-12 weeks. Through October –
November 2008, the InStep team will be focused on short-listing projects to engage 175 students for 20092010.
PROCESS OVERVIEW:
Engaging with the
university
Alumni Relations
Instep
Program
Application
Resume
Evaluation
On boarding &
support
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ONBOARDING AND SUPPORT
Project duration 8-12 weeks
Extensive support to help intern prepare for trip and apply for visa (if required)
Project Mentor
Student Mentor
Buddy
Induction program
Requirements document capturing project deliverables
Regular feedback sessions, workshops with senior management and annual cultural excursion
KEYTIMELINES:
Summer Internship application process deadline: December end
Initial short-listing & Interviews: January 2009
Internship Offer: February 2009
APPLICATION
Students apply via online application on website www.infosys.com/instepweb
RESUME EVALUATION
Evaluation for grade point average (GPA)
Resumes matched with readily available repository of projects (on our website)
Telephonic interviews set up to assess candidate’s suitability to work on the project
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Internship Areas
Technology
• Independent Validation Solutions
• Product Engineering &Testing Services
• Software Engineering & Technologies Lab
Business & Liberal Arts
• Banking and Capital Markets
• Consulting Solutions
• Communications Media and
Entertainment
• Corporate Marketing
• Corporate Planning
• Diversity Office
• Education & Research
• Enterprise Solutions
• Energy, Utilities and Services
• India Business Unit
• Infosys BPO
• Infosys Leadership Institute
• Infrastructure Management Services
• Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Human Resources
• Knowledge Management
• Manufacturing
• New Growth Engines
• Retail, Consumer Product Goods & Logistics
• Sustainability Council
• Systems Integration
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Internship Areas: Engineering
Units
• Product Engineering
• Product Lifecycle Engineering & Development
• Software Engineering & Technology Labs
Areas
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Grid computing
Information Security
Automation
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Embedded Systems
Web 2.0
Research
Software as a Service
Languages
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Java, C++, C#
.Net/J2EE
Python, Perl
QoS
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Internship Package
Monetary
• Airfare
• Visa Fee
• Monthly Benefits package
– Accommodation
– Food allowance
– Free transportation in the city
– SIM cards
– Health club membership
• Monthly Allowance
• Medical Insurance
Professional & Personal Value-Adds
• Exposure to one of the fastest growing
economies in the world
• Meet with the founders-directors of the
company
• Real world work experience
• Individual attention from project mentor,
student mentor and buddy
• Experience cultures of over 37 different
nationalities
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Angelina Clarke
MIT Sloan
Corporate Planning
Topic: Infosys is exploring the use of outcome-based pricing in
order to become a strategic partners to clients
Project: I benchmarked the use of outcome-based pricing in
various industries, with a focus on the technology sector. In
combination with internal interviews with Infosys stakeholders –
such as the Co-Chairman of the Board – some of whom had
employed outcome-based pricing on a trial basis.
Outcome: I created a series of recommendations for the use of
outcome-based pricing in particular situations, beginning with a
trial series in certain business units. I presented my findings to
the Head of Corporate Planning.
“I had a great time and learned a lot.”
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Georgios Drossinos
International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
Retail Unit
"I highly recommend the InStep program to everyone, regardless of
what you are studying and at what stage of your studies you are in.
The combination of working for such an innovative and growing
company in a country as diverse and interesting as India was a
transformational experience."
Topic: Infosys’ Retail, CPG and Logistics unit created a solution that provides visibility into shopping
behavior and shelf activity through an in-store network of wireless sensor-based applications. It
enables real-time collaboration between people (shoppers), places (retailers) and products (CPG
companies) at the point of purchase.
Project: My first project I conducted competitive analysis on Shopping Trip 360 (a suite of pervasive
technology solutions for retailers) in preparation for its launch, which occurred at the beginning of
August. The analysis was approved and used by the senior leadership of my business unit.
Outcome: The competitive analysis was used in positioning the Shopping Trip 360 solution in the
marketplace, and the solution débuted during my internship.
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Christine Zhang
Student of Smith College
Interned with Knowledge Management
“Working with the KM team gave me the opportunity to unite my
quantitative analysis skills with my written communication skills in
analyzing and researching data from Infosys’ Chinese and
Australian subsidiaries. The internship was amazing, both
professionally and personally.”
Topic: Knowledge Management (KM) is a way of leveraging the
collective intellectual power of a company. It is especially important
in large corporations such as Infosys, because it creates official
channels that help employees share and transfer knowledge. For
example, the KShop database is a Google-like search engine that
contains a repository of documents written by Infoscions on various
subjects.
Project: Christine worked with the KM team to develop strategic business initiatives for launching and
promoting Knowledge Management in Infosys Australia and Infosys China.
Outcome: Her research enabled a better understanding of the cultural aspects of Australia and China.
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Benny Leong
Student of CIT, Purdue University
Interned with SETLabs
Topic: Survey of test data generation techniques and the
automation of requirement-based regression test suite generation.
No existing effective method for the generation of regression test
suite.
Project: Created a novel approach to regression test suite
generation that focuses on one of the common system
requirement models: the activity diagram.
Outcome: Conferred the ‘Outstanding Intern’ Award by Infosys
Chairman NR Narayana Murthy, for his contributions to his project.
“Undoubtedly, my experience working on the project was nothing but extremely exciting, absolutely
thought-provoking and completely fulfilling. With the guidance of my project mentors, the resulting Proof of
Concept from my project will not only able to generate hundreds of test suite in a matter of seconds but
also change the work culture of software testers.”
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