Infosys Halts Hiring Tests After Widespread Cheating

Infosys has deferred online and in-person assessments for over 20,000 job applicants after detecting multiple instances of impersonation and evaluation malpractice during its hiring process. The affected candidates had applied for specialist programmer and digital specialist engineer trainee roles.

The company, which recruits annually from 300 to 400 colleges across India, uncovered systematic attempts to game its evaluation process. Following the discovery, Infosys introduced additional guardrails and verification checks to restore the integrity of its hiring assessments.

In communications to affected candidates, Infosys confirmed the deferment and assured applicants that revised schedules would be shared once finalised. The company emphasized that the pause does not impact its broader hiring commitments or campus recruitment targets.

Infosys remains an aggressive campus recruiter, having onboarded over 20,000 freshers in FY26 with a similar intake planned for FY27. During the same year, the company processed 5.8 million applications, interviewed 450,901 candidates, and extended offers to 87,286 applicants.

The company conducts digital screening through its proprietary platform Springboard, which has reached over 15 million users globally through skilling initiatives. Last year, Infosys transitioned from virtual-only hiring to a hybrid recruitment model combining virtual and in-person evaluations.

The shift was prompted by well-documented challenges in virtual hiring — including fake profiles, limited personal rapport, and technical vulnerabilities. In a related development, Infosys previously terminated approximately 600 trainees at its Mysuru campus after repeated failures in internal assessments.

The incidents highlight a growing crisis in digital recruitment integrity across India's IT sector, raising urgent questions about how technology companies can authentically verify candidate identities at scale

How FaceOff Technologies Can Transform Infosys Hiring

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• Real-Time Identity Verification — instantly authenticating candidate identity before and during assessments, eliminating impersonation attempts entirely.
• Liveness Detection — ensuring the person appearing on screen is physically present and genuine, not a photograph, video, or deepfake substitute.
• Behavioral Biometrics — continuously monitoring eye movements, facial expressions, and interaction patterns throughout the assessment to flag anomalies in real time.
• Multimodal Authentication — combining face recognition, voice verification, and physiological signals like rPPG-based heart rate to create an unforgeable identity layer.
• AI Observability Dashboard — giving Infosys recruiters a real-time trust score for every candidate session, with full audit trails for compliance.

With FaceOff's AVATAAR Framework integrating privacy-by-design principles and post-quantum security, Infosys could confidently scale its digital hiring across millions of candidates — without compromising assessment integrity or candidate experience.

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