SAP Interview Questions &amp; Reviews

find k-th smallest element in an array

Negotiation Details

Casual

Other Details

I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in Oeiras (Portugal) (took a day)

Although I submitted an application for SAP Portugal, I got contacted by a UK SAP Recruiter, by phone. This was the screening interview. It will still be followed by a presencial at the Portuguese office.

Basically the recruiter wanted to know the details about my CV and how well I was fit for this job.

The recruiter also requested earnings expectations. I replied with a 60% extra figure: 2500€ (gross) - this was pretty high for the normal fee of 1500€ (gross) for this job position. Nevertheless, replying this was negotiable, I was allowed to continue with the next interview.

Recruiter was very pleasant and also congratulated me for my communication skills, perhaps due to the perception created by my CV - 7 years now as an experienced consultant.

Interview Questions

How much do you expect to earn?

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

I had my online exam on 19th of december. Then i was called for interview in sap labs bangalore on 12th january 2012. The sap campus is awesome. first round was a 1:1 technical interview, manager joined in between the technical round and asked managerial questions. Technical questions were basic questions on c, c++, OOPS, database, project details and any real life software development experience if any. Next round was completely Manager round . Manager asked questions like where do u want to see urself in 2 years, how will i manage myself in a group in which one person doesnt like me and all those kind off questions . Last round was HR . HR is seniour member and i guess the Vice president of the company. general questions on family, hobbies , why SAP?. dream companies, long term goals, what do i want to inprove in myself, etc etc.. finally all rounds were over and HR called me inside a panel and said " Congratulations, we offer a role in our company" . got a confirmation mail the next day. waiting for offer letter now. Hopefully it will be soon

Interview Questions

How would u manage a person of more experience than you who is working under you?

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 4 weeks)

Had a phone interview with another SAP consultant. It was fairly easy, asked me general interview questions. Lasted 30 minutes or so. Had an in person interview a few weeks later at their headquarters in PA. This was with 2 people, one with whom would be my manager. Interview went smoothly with no real hard questions asked. Got the offer a few days later.

Interview Questions

What are your strengths, weaknesses?

Reason for Declining

Salary was too low..no room for negotiation.

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 1 week)

I had been in touch with a recruiter from SAP at the time who had been intersted in moving me forward in the interview process. The initial pre-screen was to check to see if I had enterprise sales experience. Nothing out of the ordinary. They moved to a second pre-screen with another more specific recruiter, asked about quota attainment, why I left previous job, what I know about SAP. Nothing overly complicated again, pretty standard interview questions. I had 2 other job offers at the time with an expiration in a few days. I used it as leverage to get a quick decision. They pulled me in to an interview with the sales manager and director onsite. Conversational type interview, we had a discussion around my experience, what i knew about the company, biggest deal closed, my sales methodology. They spent 50% of the time explaining more about the role, industry and growth potential selling me on why SAP sharing their own success stories. We ended the interview with a tour of the office, hard closed me with the Lunch On Us Card and Gym facilties and then gave me a verbal on the offer, had paperwork for pickup the next day.

Interview Questions

How did you do against your quota last year? Why?

Talk to me about the biggest, most complex deal you closed and how you did it.

What do you know about SAP?

Strengths/Weakness Assessment

Negotiation Details

There were no negotiations, it was a fixed offer from recruiter

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)

Asked about my previous projects and technologies I've been using. Because they are working on a new Java EE project they focused on my Java experience. Talked about Struts, Hibernate. Some database design questions. Like what is replication and why would you want it? But nothing too specific. A bit on the frontend, general HTML\CSS, AJAX, jQuery, but again nothing too specific, just making sure that I know what I was talking about.

Interview Questions

Tell us about your experience in software development.

Reason for Declining

I actually did not, I still have time to "think about it". It's just not my first choice and I am waiting on other places.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 7+ weeks)

Phone interview -> 3 Hour test -> Product Manager Interview -> Executive Interview -> HR interview -> Salary and benefits meeting.
Between each stage was at least a 2 week waiting period.
They apparently interview hundreds of candidates for a single position so it is very unlikely to be accepted. It is especially irritating that they don't even recomponsate you for all the effort, time, and gas that you put in to these interviews. I even got a parking ticket because my car didn't have a SAP sticker.

Interview Questions

A couple of OOP terms to define. Algorithm for checking if a string is correctly opened and closed by a number of brackets.

Make a class diagram of a system that is described in a story. Design a database schema which is basically a composite one and then write a couple of queries.

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)

I was selected to SAP LABS from campus (PESIT, Bangalore) on October 2011. The cut off required to attend the aptitude test was 7 GPA / 70%. There were a total of 3 rounds.
    The first round was an online aptitude round which had 95 questions. There was 90 minutes to answer with sectional timing. The various sections were Verbal, Analytic and Technical. 33 people out of a total of 250 cleared the online round.
    Second round was a technical interview and I was asked questions from most of the core CS subjects in my undergrad course. 15 people cleared this round.
    Third round was a HR round and it involved me talking about why I wanted to work at SAP LABS. Also I was required to talk about my final project and there was a coding question as well in the HR round. 12 people were give offers from PESIT (and PESSE) .
    I found the people to be very nice and friendly and was impressed with the way they went about with the selection process. The culture seemed very relaxed and informal judging by the fact that students dressed in casual T shirts and jeans were also offered jobs. (Some companies like Goldman Sachs required students to come dressed in business casuals for their interview).

Advice to other Candidates: Be technically strong for the aptitude test and in the interview be in a relaxed state and be yourself.

Interview Questions

A boy goes to his grandmother’s house. There he either does yoga in the morning / plays tennis in the evening / does neither. However he does not do both on the same day. We know that 22 days he did either 1 activity. 24 mornings he did nothing. 12 evenings he did nothing. How many min days did he stay there to have done this?

View Answers (3)

Theory Qs:
What are the various software design patterns , Explain the OSI model with functions of each layer , what is page faults and thrashing , explain all the normal forms and demonstrate 3NF and BCNF normalisation with a sample database , explain the implementation of heapsort .

Programming Question:
Write a function to reverse words of a string in place using a programming language of your choice (I used C)..

I/P to the function: India is my country
O/P : aidnI si ym yrtnuoc

Negotiation Details

Since this was a campus offer, there were no negotiations.

Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.