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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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New Graduate Consulting Program at SAP America
Posted May 24, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Newtown Square, PA (took 2 weeks)
I applied online and was contacted about a week latter. I had a phone interview with HR who then scheduled another interview with one of the managers who I might be working for. I had that interview than SAP had me take an online personality test as well as a skills assessment test. After those I was scheduled to fly to Newtown Square for a panel interview and presentation. Sadly out of the 61 people who interviewed for the 25 open positions, SAP decided to cut the program until latter this year.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Associate Consultant - Graduate Consultant Program at SAP America
Posted May 16, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in Newtown Square, PA (took 4+ weeks)
Applied on SAP website. With in 2 weeks a recruiter emailed me to schedule a phone interview.
First Interview - Phone with HR Recruiter
Went through my resume. Asked about techinical skill sets. I expressed my interest on the Functional position, Miss.HR told me the functional candidates were "probably set". She was really nice and forwarded me to schedule a phone interview with a technical manager.
Second Interview - Phone with Manager
Went through my technical experiences quickly, type of database and softwares that I'm familiar with etc. (Manager was really nice, told me "let me know if you're guessing, but don't pretend to know what you don't." In the end he suggested me to read a book called "Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers" but skip the first 3 chapters.)
Technical questions such as, if you have a column of millions or records but only 5 of them are duplicates, is it low cardinality or high cardinality (I guessed this one)
Behavioral questions such as, if you caught your boss napping, what do you do? (how do you answer this?)
In the end he put me through to the final on-site interview on the following Friday(4/27). During that weekend I finished an online personality test.
Third Interview - On-site Panel (2:1)
Started with a 10-min presentation with interactive Q/A. After that went through resume more, very specific on project experience, programming/database skill, understanding of what your current job does and if you had any experience using SAP products etc. One of the managers spent a good 10 minutes explaining the functional and technical spectrum and asked me which side do I have more preference on. Also recommended to add my foreign language skills to the resume.
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This interview went extremly well, I thought I had it in the bag. HR told me afterwards that results would be out the following Wednesday. Although it didn't come through until 2 weeks later. I did not have an offer, becasue, according to the email I received yesterday, the Graduate Consultant Program will be "delayed a few months" and further discussion on the job will be held until then.
Did anybody outhere receive the same outcome? I am curious.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Personality Test.
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Business Analytics at SAP America
Posted Apr 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Newtown Square, PA (took 2 months)
I was contacted by an SAP talent recruiter and then they set up a series of phone interviews.
I Went through two rounds of interviews. They said they would get back to me in a week and it turned into months. The first was a general personality interview and the second was more focused on skills. Both were pretty standard, professional interviews (all done on the phone).
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Reason for Declining
Dry, boring company environment. They weren't optimistic enough about opportunities for advancement. Just seemed to want to quickly fill a small, highly controlled role.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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SAP Graduate Academy at SAP America
Posted Feb 19, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Philadelphia, PA (took 2 months)
Initial phone screening. Subsequent in-person interviews. Friendly interviewers.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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SAP Associate Consultant at SAP America
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Newtown Square, PA (took 3 weeks)
I am not sure how an online recruitment agency how my resume, possibly via monster. I had a brief phone interview following which I was told I would be interviewing with SAP America. The first recruiter who spoke to me asked me questions from a general questionnaire. I thought this interview did not go well since I found a lot of the question technical in nature, whereas I am a functional guy. She told me that she did not expect me to know everything. To my surprise, I got a call from a lead recruiter after two days.
Based on my experience I was offered to interview for two Associate level positions. Both the interviewing processes were held in parallel. Interview consisted of conversation related to my resume and consulting.To my astonishment, I was asked to come in for a face-to-face interview for both positions.
Position 1 - Manager phone interview + Face-to-face proposal
Position 2 - Manager phone interview + Platinum consultant phone interview + Face-to-face proposal.
The recruiter asked me to pick one position over the other and advised me that if this interviewing process didn't work out I would be able to interview for the other position. I preferred position 2 as it was more intimate to my background and I really connected to the manager over the phone.
I was called in for a face-to-face interview. I was flown to an airport and the manager met me at the airport and interviewed me there itself. It was a great interview and the manager was a pleasure to speak with. Near the conclusion I asked what I can expect next, and I was hinted that the recruiter will get in touch with me for an offer in the coming days.
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Negotiation Details
No room for negotiation. Excellent salary + package offered.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales Graduate Academy at SAP America
Posted Aug 15, 2011 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Newtown Square, PA (took 4 weeks)
Applied through the website and emailed a recruiter directly. A different recruiter contacted me for an initial phone screen that took about 10 or 15 minutes. This call just confirmed my background, my eligibility for the program and my availability. The recruiter informed at the end of the call that me that she would recommend me for a phone interview with a manager.
The first phone interview was arranged over email.There was some back-and-forth and confusion (delayed emails, a missed call) relating to this phone interview. But once we connected, it was a pretty friendly chat. A lot of the questions were typical for a sales/business strategy/marketing rotational. The program is relatively new, so the managers do not have a lot of insight into exactly how the process works, but they can still explain the overall culture at SAP and what the company needs.
Within a week, I received an email from my original recruiter inviting me to onsite interviews. The interview date and time was changed a couple of times, but it was not too much of an imposition. For the interview, I was led into a small auditorium with about 15 fellow program candidates. We were then led individually conference rooms for 2:1 interviews with conference managers. These interviews were about a half hour to 45 minutes. The first was rather laid back, generally asking questions about my background and my interests and more conversational. I think I lost the job offer in the second interview, which was a bit more pointed. One asked questions about what areas of the graduate academy I was interested in. When I told him, he replied that the area I mentioned does not match my skill set, so apparently I had the wrong impression of the field. He also asked about my undergraduate GPA (I'm a graduate student who earned my BA 9 years ago).
I don't think I lost the position because I flubbed the interview per se. I think that I just didn't have the right answers.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Associate Consultant at SAP America
Posted May 31, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Newtown Square, PA (took 3 months)
I submitted my application online, 2 weeks later they reached out to me, scheduling a phone interview with HR representative for scanning purposes. A month later I was scheduled a 1 hour phone interview with the hiring manager. Hiring manager was a pleasure to talk, Then site interview with 3 top US managers and a presentation. I was called the same day with a verbal offer.
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Negotiation Details
No room for negotiation. They pay well.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Marketing Intern at SAP America
Posted Apr 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Newtown Square, PA (took 3 weeks)
SAP called me to ask about my interest in a couple positions. I indicated interest in both and was selected for a phone interview for one. I was emailed for my availability.
My phone interview went well and I was given a practical assignment - to review a competitor's product and analyze it. My professors thought my work was great (I didn't ask for their opinion until after I sent it). At this point SAP arranged an in-person interview.
I arrived at SAP about 20 minutes before my scheduled interview. About 3 minutes before my time my HR contact came down and took me to the interview room, which was right around the corner from the entrance.
My interview was short (about 15 minutes). I was asked typical questions - why did you pick the majors you did, why are you interested in this position. I had the opportunity to connect with my interviewer at a couple points. I had been left with the opportunity the interview had gone well.
I was told I would be notified within two weeks; I received no notification after two weeks (I had on previous positions with SAP received automatic notification) so I followed up. I was ultimately not selected.'
I found it immensely frustrating as I had sincerely hoped to have the opportunity to work at SAP this summer.
The entire process gave me a weird perspective on SAP. You're pretty much ignored if you just apply online - this is not backed only by my experience, but those by others .Online applications are the only acceptable form of application though, so you have to apply online, then call an HR contact or university recruiter to get the ball rolling. SAP moves very slowly and you may have to push the ball yourself.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Consultant at SAP America
Posted Mar 1, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Newtown Square, PA (took 3 weeks)
Was first contacted by a recruiter and was asked to speak about my background . He then sent me a link to a personality and skills test which consisted of 50 personalty questions that asks how you would react in certian situations and which types of activities you prefer. The skills test was similar to an abridge SAT in which there were math and verbal questions. The verbal questions had synonyms/antonyms and comparsions while the math had problems and patterns. I was called back in for a final interview in which 15 people interviewed for 5 spots. We were asked ahead of time to prepare a 10 minute presentation/powerpoint. The presentation was the first part of the interview followed by another 30 minutes with the hiring manager. It was a fairly straightforward interview in which they asked the generic questions however they had a printout of the personality test in front of them and went over any weaknesses they saw with it.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Inside Marketing Representative at SAP America
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Newtown Square, PA (took 5 days)
The initial communication was through an employee referral. Once the hiring manager saw resume, I was contacted by phone. After a phone interview I was brought in to interview with 3 different hiring managers on the same day. It was a very open and comfortable environment, more of a conversation than a "what type of animal would you be" interview.
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Negotiation Details
They don't play games. Most of the time, what the hiring manager offers you, is the maximum you are permitted to receive. It may be worth asking for more, but I've come to understand that they are fair with their initial offers.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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