Talent Competition Winners

Infosys recently announced the winners of the first edition of its Hashers challenge, a unique programming contest to foster innovation and create a platform for collaboration with the future talent pool of the industry. 

 The inaugural edition of Infosys Hashers drew participation from 540 students from the IITs, IIITs and BITS Pilani. Teams were put through two rigorous rounds to judge their programming skills and were judged on various parameters including accuracy, performance and flexibility of the solution. 

The exciting finale of the contest witnessed 13 two-member teams competing for the top spot in an intense coding competition at the Infosys campus in Bangalore, where they built a website to find the best mobile service plan using the algorithm they created in Round One. Abhishek Kumar Arora and Abhisaar Sharma, from the Indian Institute of Technology – Ropar, were declared the winners with a cash prize of Rupees one lakh. 

 A.Guru Prakash and  Devesh Yamparala from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai were declared the runners up, receiving a cash prize of Rupees sixty thousand.Venkata Sai Sriram Mahavadi and Bisen Vikrantsingh Mohansingh from the International Institute of Information Technology , Bangalore bagged the third spot. S Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman of the company felicitated the winners. Infosys partners with global enterprises to drive their innovation-led growth.