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BENGALURU, India, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/

- Career development, training & mentoring, networking, and international

opportunities valued highly by interns

    Infosys[https://www.infosys.com/] (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a

global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today

announced that its flagship global internship program, InStep, was ranked as

the 'Best Overall Internship Program' in the 2021 Vault Internship Rankings.

The rankings published by

Vault.com[https://firsthand.co/best-internships-rankings-search/100-best-interns

hips]—a career intelligence organization, distinguished Infosys as the only

global organization to have received this ranking four times in a row.

    Instep earned the top rank in the following categories:

    - Best internship for the Tech and Engineering industry

    - Best Internship for Compensation, Employment Prospects, Networking

Opportunities, Overall Career Development, Quality of Assignments, Quality of

Life, Real-Life Experience, and Training & Mentoring

    - Best Internship by role for Software Engineering & Development, and

Strategy & Business Development

    - Best Internship for Overall Diversity

    Vault has joined forces with Firsthand, a premier career mentoring and

engagement platform for students and alumni. While announcing the rankings, the

Editors at Firsthand said, "The Infosys InStep internship program held the top

spot for an impressive fourth year in a row. InStep interns gave their programs

fantastic reviews, praising the caring and supportive people from diverse

backgrounds, collaborative culture, exciting and challenging projects, great

work/life balance and schedule flexibility, top-notch compensation, and

mentoring, networking, and learning opportunities."

    In the wake of the global medical crisis, Infosys InStep is being conducted

virtually with over 250 interns representing 123 universities and 39

nationalities working remotely throughout the course of the program. As a fully

paid internship, Instep provides interns with an opportunity to work on

real-time projects across corporate functions and business units, including

financial services, strategic engineering group, artificial intelligence, data

analytics, and cybersecurity. Infosys InStep additionally offers a well-defined

career progression plan that last year resulted in over 70 percent of eligible

interns receiving full-time offers.

    Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys said, "This recognition

reflects our commitment to enable talent, enhance skills and capabilities

through education, learning and meaningful work. Infosys InStep has brought

together the power of digital platforms and learning tools to ensure the safety

of interns and deliver on its commitment to provide them the best learning

experience, across geographies. As we are moving towards new ways of working,

Infosys continues to nurture an ecosystem that encourages and guides young

talent to shape a meaningful future and ensure progress for all."

    "Many congratulations to Infosys InStep for this latest recognition.

Infosys and the University of Cambridge have long had a fruitful relationship

involving our students, graduates, and faculty. I personally enjoy my regular

discussions with colleagues at Infosys regarding their HR approach and other

topical subjects of great interest to our students in their career journeys,"

said Prof. Dr. Thomas Roulet, Deputy Director of the MBA Program & Associate

Professor in Organization Theory, University of Cambridge.

    "Infosys and Kellogg School of Management have a long-standing partnership

and it is exciting to see the continued impact of the Infosys InStep internship

program. The program offers an immersive learning experience by connecting

students with some of the most brilliant minds at Infosys in technology arenas

like cybersecurity, IoT and Machine learning. We look forward to many more

years of collaborative academic experiences with Infosys," said Prof. Mohanbir

Sawhney, Associate Dean of Digital Innovation and the Director for Center for

Research in Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management.

    About Infosys

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

consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their

digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the

systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients

through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an

AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower

the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of

performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their

continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills,

expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

    Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY) can help

your enterprise navigate your next.

    Safe Harbor

    Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects,

financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our

employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to

qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform

Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause

actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking

statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include,

but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the

effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks

related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and

other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic

conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates,

our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including

those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our

ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost

overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,

restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to

manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key

focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our

ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions,

liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in

which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of

governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts,

legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India,

unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions

affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government

investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results

are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange

Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year

ended March 31, 2021. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may,

from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements,

including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and

Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not

undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time

to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.

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