Infosys spends Rs.750 crore yearly on training

Infosys’ Global Education Center spends Rs.750 crore yearly on training

Infosys is a multinational company providing information technology services and business consulting. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, in the electronic city of India. Infosys is the 3rd largest IT Company in India and 5th largest employer of H1-B visa as stated in the year 2013.

Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by CEO Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora all of whom were former emplyees of Patni Computer Systems. They started off as Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd. in Pune, Maharashtra

Infosys has nine training centers in India. The Global Education Center at Mysore accommodates up to 13,500 new recruits. Infosys invests an average of Rs. 2.50 lakh on training a potential employee over a period of 16 weeks.Infosys engages 510 engineering colleges nationwide to make the curriculum relevant to industry and oriented towards employment. Infosys' Campus Connect program trains the faculty on the skills to be imparted to students and integrating software engineering into the curriculum.

The Infosys Story

In 1981, seven engineers started Infosys Limited with just US$250. From the beginning, the company was founded on the principle of building and implementing great ideas that drive progress for clients and enhance lives through enterprise solutions. For over three decades, we have been a company focused on bringing to life great ideas and enterprise solutions that drive progress for our clients.

We recognize the importance of nurturing relationships that reflect our culture of unwavering ethics and mutual respect. It’ll come as no surprise, then, that 97.1 percent (FY 2016) of our revenues come from existing clients.

Infosys has a growing global presence with more than 194,000+ employees. Globally, we have 85 sales and marketing offices and 100 development centers as at March 31, 2015.

At Infosys, we believe our responsibilities extend beyond business. That is why we established the Infosys Foundation – to provide assistance to some of the more socially and economically depressed sectors of the communities in which we work.