Case studies

Real results from our university partnerships.

Each study shows what we taught, how the students were tested, and how many of them were hired. The companies that hired them are named, and we add a new study as each partnership reaches its results.

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Selections at a partner university

214

241

301

2023

2024

2025

+41%more selected since 2023

4,440students tested

79%passed that test

6,000+trained each semester

301students selected in 2025

630trained for the contest

127reached the final round

These students were hired by

Capgemini

We name the companies that hired them, because that is the proof. We do not name the universities.

301 students selected in 2025, up from 214 in 2023.

01Placement training built into the degree timetable

Student selections rose 41% after training reached every programme

A private multi-disciplinary universityCentral India2023 - 2025

It started as 24 hours a semester for one engineering programme. Three years on the same training runs across every degree the university offers, and engineering selections are up 41%.

+41%more selected than in 2023

3employers with a dedicated track

6,000+trained a semester, all degrees

The 301 are engineering selections through the three recruiter tracks. The 6,000+ is the separate university-wide programme that now runs across every degree, and it feeds those tracks.

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Students selected each year

2023 to 2025

+41%since 2023

214

241

301

202330 hrs

202460 hrs

202540 hrs each

Every year we look at the previous year’s results and adjust the number of bootcamp hours and which employers we prepare students for. In 2025 that went from one employer track to three.

127 reached the Infosys HackWithInfy final round.

02Infosys HackWithInfy contest preparation

127 students reached the final round of Infosys HackWithInfy

Two private engineering universitiesNorth India2026 cycle

Infosys fills its highest-paying engineering jobs through a national coding contest. Passing it takes far more coding practice than a normal placement syllabus provides.

630students trained

180+training hours

84%stayed on from round 1 to round 2

HackWithInfy is how Infosys fills its Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer roles, at 16 and 21 lakh rupees a year. The 127 are students who reached its final round.

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How far the students got

2026 cycle

630students trainedFoundationPlacement grade

152passedRound 1Specialist level

127got hereFinal roundCodeforces 2000+

Each stage is harder than the one before it, and the last is pitched above a Codeforces rating of 2000. Of the 152 students who reached round 1, 127 held on to the final - a retention rate of 84%, at the level where most preparation programmes lose their students.

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Every case study in one PDF

The full write-up of each partnership: what we taught, the charts and every figure, with no university named. It is the same document we take into a meeting with an academic council.

How selections grew, year by year
What the 40-hour employer bootcamp covers, hour by hour
How many students made it through each contest round
What we measure, and what we do not

02Infosys HackWithInfy contest preparation

127 students reached the final round of Infosys HackWithInfy

Two private engineering universitiesNorth India2026 cycle

This contest is how the employer fills its Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer roles, which pay 16 lakh and 21 lakh rupees a year. Passing it takes competitive programming skill that a standard placement course does not build, so we designed the preparation around the contest’s own rounds and difficulty levels.

Three stages, and you have to clear each one

This is not a crash course. Each stage has its own difficulty target and students have to clear it before moving on, so the preparation gets harder at the same pace as the contest itself.

Foundation · 17 daysThe basics: arrays, strings, recursion, dynamic programming and graphs

Round 1 · 84 hrs / 14 daysHarder patterns, advanced dynamic programming, contest technique and segment trees

Final round · 60 hrs / 10 daysCodeforces practice only, across the contest’s four difficulty levels, aiming at a rating above 2000

Where the hours went

The hours were deliberately weighted towards the two things that separate a contest qualifier from an ordinary placement candidate, with regular testing so every student’s readiness could be measured.

Advanced data structures · 140 hrsBit manipulation, advanced strings, tries, interval and bitmask dynamic programming, advanced trees and graphs, segment and Fenwick trees

Competitive programming · 40 hrsCodeforces-style problem solving at every difficulty level, speed drills and contest strategy

One-to-one practice interviewsIndividual technical rehearsals with structured feedback, for every student

Full practice examsRepeated exam-standard tests on confirmed question patterns, scored module by module

Practising the exact final-round levels

The final block practises on the same four difficulty levels the contest uses, at the same rating bands and time limits.

Easy · 1400–1800Greedy methods, arrays and strings, stacks, two-pointers, sliding window. Target 40 minutes or less.

Medium · 1700–2000Linear and grid dynamic programming, weighted interval scheduling, binary-search dynamic programming. Target 70 minutes or less.

Hard · 1900–2300Knapsack variants, longest common subsequence and edit distance, interval and bitmask dynamic programming. Target 100 minutes or less.

Complex · 2000–2600Dynamic programming with segment trees, on trees and re-rooting, and probability. Partial credit expected.

How each group did

Group	Trained	Passed round 1	Reached final	Success rate
Larger group	450	100	80	22.2%
Smaller group	180	52	47	28.9%
Combined	630	152	127	24.1%

In the smaller group, 90% of the students who passed round 1 went on to the final round. The strongest students in that group scored 99% across the whole curriculum.

Built on real exam evidence

The course is built around 20 question patterns that are either confirmed or very likely to come up, each tagged with the year it last appeared, plus more than 300 selected practice problems from LeetCode, GeeksforGeeks and Codeforces. Every student was scored module by module and put on a red, amber or green readiness band, so coaching time went where it was needed most.

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Real results from our university partnerships.

Student selections rose 41% after training reached every programme

127 students reached the final round of Infosys HackWithInfy

Every case study in one PDF

Student selections rose 41% after training reached every programme

How the training works

Extra preparation for a specific employer

Which employers selected the 2025 students

How test scores moved

127 students reached the final round of Infosys HackWithInfy

Three stages, and you have to clear each one

Where the hours went

Practising the exact final-round levels

How each group did

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