Few people like to talk about their failures. But one leader loves to speak about failing to land the first ever deal they worked on, because it established his faith in Infosys. Barely five months after joining Infosys, they were asked to head pitch for a large transformational project for an insurance company. No insurance company in the US had ever embarked on a journey like that, so the stakes were high. Were the deal to come through, it would give them career a leg-up. After multiple rounds of pitching, only three companies remained in the fray, including Infosys.

They could have taken the easy way out but chose to push back, insisting on the approach their team had outlined, because it was the right way to do things. Infosys lost the pitch narrowly. But he maintains victory. “Our passion for continuous learning at Infosys encourages me to reach for the moon,” he says. Five years on, that passion remains unshaken. And there have been several other wins since.

Get the deal at all costs, or push for a solution that is right - but one that might cost you the deal? That's just the question one IT strategist faced in the final stages of negotiations with a client. Dropping the price and getting a signature on the dotted line was the easier option. But somewhere deep down, she knew that what the client was proposing would not work in the long run.

She pressed on, insisting that the client reassess their requirement and consider the solution she had proposed, albeit at a higher price. She recounts that experience as one of her most trying ones. The solution she proposed made things more difficult for her team, but the lower cost alternative would have caused operational difficulties, putting the client as well as the Infosys team in a spot. "I'm proud that we value integrity over easy success," she says, "But for us, it is the only way."

Armed with a degree in engineering, one young man chose a career in academics over a lucrative alternative in the corporate world. He believed strongly that the best way to build a better world was to impart knowledge to the young minds that would inherit it. That was until he saw the potential of a position advertised at Infosys. Here at last was an opportunity to leverage modern learning-management platforms like LeX, to disseminate knowledge in a much more focused and effective manner than teaching at a college. He joined as a core team member for a Competency Development team. He experienced the power of automation first-hand. Here was a platform that was robust as it was agile, helping pinpoint individual learning needs and tailoring a learning experience for thousands of Infoscions.

Five years later, he and his team continue to improve LeX to create a learning platform that's setting new standards in the industry and making a difference to thousands of Infoscions. He says, “Infosys taught me to fly and now I'm soaring.”