About Infosys

Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in the city of Pune, India

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting.

Program

HackWithInfy is a coding competition for engineering students graduating in the years 2023, 2024, and 2025 across India. The program is specially designed to inculcate a culture of rapid problem-solving and innovative thinking early in academic life.

HackWithInfy provides the perfect stepping-stone for students to explore their interest in programming and an opportunity to compete and win exciting prizes. The top performers will also earn a chance to work with Infosys.

HackWithInfy comprises two rounds with Round 1 as an individual online test and a Grand Finale. This year, HackWithInfy is not just open to the final year engineering students but also for the second and third-year engineering students in India to prove their mettle and win exciting cash prizes worth INR3.5 Lakhs. Registration to HackWithInfy is open through InfyTQ, the Infosys learning and engagement platform for engineering students in India. If you are an InfyTQ user, click on the HackWithInfy banner on the InfyTQ website homepage to register for the competition. If you are not an InfyTQ user, visit the InfyTQ website to create an account and register for HackWithInfy.

Come, compete with fellow programmers in India who share the same passion for programming, technology, and innovation.

Move forward. Take the world with you.

For more details, read the terms and conditions of HackWithInfy here.

Terms and Conditions

An individual applicant or team participating in Infosys Limited’s (‘Company’) HackWithInfy (‘Event’) shall be referred to as a ‘participant or participants’. By registering to participate in the Event, the participants acknowledge and agree to the following terms and conditions (hereinafter referred to as ‘HackWithInfy’s terms and conditions’). The Company also reserves the right to cancel or amend this Event and these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice.

Eligibility Criteria

1. The participant shall be of age 18 years or older, at the day they make an entry/registration and must be a resident of India. Participation in this Event is voluntary.
2. Participants must be B.E./ B. Tech/ M.E./ M. Tech students graduating in 2023, 2024, or 2025. The Company reserves the right to request proof of a participant’s eligibility if there is a doubt over their eligibility for the same.
3. Participants are deemed to accept these terms and conditions by entering the Contest

Registration Process

• Each participant shall participate through a single HackWithInfy account. Please note that the Company in its sole discretion may disqualify any participant who participates or attempts to participate in the Event through multiple HackWithInfy accounts.

• Participation in the Event is free, and no registration fees will be charged before or after the Event.

• Registration to HackWithInfy is open through InfyTQ, the Infosys learning and engagement platform for engineering students in India. Students who are already registered on InfyTQ can apply for HackWithInfy by clicking on the HackWithInfy program banner on the InfyTQ homepage. Students who have not joined InfyTQ can download the app either from the Google Play Store or from the iOS App Store. Students can also visit the InfyT Q website to experience the platform and register for HackWithInfy.

• By registering for HackWithInfy on InfyTQ, the participant agrees to allow Infosys to retrieve participant’s information, including without limitation, name, email address, institute, contact number, city, state, highest qualification, specialization, date of birth, gender, and passport size picture, passing year, etc. from the platform and share it with the internal teams of the Company or the Event and other necessary purposes as deemed necessary by Company.

• The HackWithInfy will be conducted in two rounds:

a. Round 1: March 6, 7, and 8, 2022
An online individual participation round on Infosys Assessment Platform.

b. Final Round: July 1 – July 4, 2022
The 48-hour hackathon among teams and the Grand Finale.

The top 100 participants from Round 1 will compete in the four-day grand finale in July 2022. The finalists will also get an opportunity for a pre-placement interview and internships for the niche technical roles at Infosys.

• Round 1 for HackWithInfy will be hosted on the Infosys Assessment Platform (IAP).

• Participants who provide incomplete, false, erroneous, fraudulent, forged, and tampered information will not be accepted and will be disqualified.

• For Round 1, participants must register as individuals and complete the challenge in the stipulated time. However, for Round 2 participation, it will be on a team basis as decided by the Company, at its’s complete discretion.

• HackWithInfy participants who have also opted for the Infosys Certification Advantage Round should only participate in the latter, not in HackWithInfy Round 1, as their Advantage Round performance will determine their selection for the Final Round of HackWithInfy.

• The Event entries will be judged by a judging panel who will select the winning entry/entries for the Event within its sole and exclusive discretion. The decision will be communicated to the participants directly.

• All submissions for Round 1 shall be evaluated by the judging panel on the following parameters:

1.Number of test cases that the code passes and code efficiency

2. Marks are assigned to the questions based on the difficulty levels and the solutions will be evaluated accordingly

3. Plagiarism is not encouraged and there shall be negative marking for plagiarism.

• The Company has the sole discretion in selecting the participants and winners from all eligible entries received. Company’s decision, or any changes made by Company, regarding the winner and all the prizes, and/or in every event that might not expressly stipulate in these Terms and Conditions, shall be final and binding on all participants in this Event. The Company accepts no queries, themes, or appeals regarding Company’s decision from any participant or third party. The receipt by any winner of any prize under this Event is conditional upon compliance with any applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Prizes are offered on a ‘NO EXCHANGE, NO REFUND’ basis.

• The Company holds the right to publish the winner’s names through any medium/channel.

• All the finalists must have their laptops with all the necessary software for the Event. Read FAQs for more details.

• Participants must ensure a stable Internet connection during the two rounds of HackWithInfy.

• The Event entries will be judged by a judging panel who will select the winning entry/entries for the Event within its sole and exclusive discretion. The decision will be communicated to the participants directly.

• Each participant understands that each of the officials engaged in the organization and management of this Event including its directors, officers, partners, employees, consultants, and agents are under no obligation to render any advice or service to any participant in respect of this Event.

Intellectual Property Declaration

By registering for HackWithInfy, I declare that

• I am the original author of the Submission and any associated form of Intellectual Property Rights therein. Submission would include any information or material created, developed, or submitted as a participant during the Event.
• I hereby unconditionally and without any restriction, agree to grant Infosys Ltd, its affiliates, and its subsidiaries all rights, title, and interest in and to the Submission including all Intellectual Property Rights and moral rights to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative Submission from, and publicly display the Submission.
• No confidential information or unauthorized usage of any source code, documentation, data points, or any other information relating to any third party is used or included in my Submission. If I use any third-party material or open-source edition, I will comply with the associate license and furnish related complete and accurate information & details to the Event organizer.
• I shall indemnify and hold Infosys Ltd harmless from and against any third-party claims arising from my act of submission committed during the ‘HackWithInfy’ Event.
• The data sets and platforms made available by Infosys Ltd to the participant remain the sole and exclusive property of the organization and should not be stored, reverse-engineered, copied, deduced, extracted, shared, or replicated in any manner or medium whatsoever by the participant.

By registering for HackWithInfy, I acknowledge and agree, in consideration of entering this Event, that

(a) I will not develop or submit the same or similar Submission in any other competition, or similar Event organized by any third party, and

(b) All intellectual property rights in the entry submitted by the participant shall vest exclusively with Infosys Ltd.

(c) I have read and understood the terms, and I understand that any non-adherence to the above could lead to strict legal action including immediate disqualification from the ‘HackWithInfy’ Event and backlisting from any future event/collaboration held by Infosys Ltd.

Personal Data Elements

For the HackWithInfy competition, Infosys will collect the following personal data:

• Name, Email ID, Phone Number, College/Institute/University Name, City, State, Highest qualification, Specialization, Year of passing, Gender.
• Scores and assessment reports of your performance in the Event.
• For Winners, bank details include Bank account holder name, Account number, IFSC code, and Bank name.
• Personal data collected as part of online proctoring such as audio anomalies, video anomalies, browser anomalies, photographs, etc.
• Photographs/ snapshots during the Event.
• Date of birth and passport-sized photograph
• Video testimony to promote the Event (optional).

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