- 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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