SAP Placement Tips and Interview Experience

SAP LAB PLACEMENT TIPS 

Founded:  Weinheim, Germany (1972; 45 years ago)

Founder:  Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira

Claus Wellenreuther

Headquarters:  Walldorf, Germany

Area served:  Worldwide

Key people:  Hasso Plattner (Chairman), Bill McDermott (CEO)

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    INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE-I (Shubham Gupta)

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I got selected in SAP in off-campus drive, i will share the process which is a bit different from what they used in campus placements.

Procedure is as follows:

1. Online Test: 

Test consists of 4-5 sections which includes aptitude, logical reasoning, verbal ability, engineering questions(M.C.Qs like output prediction, DBMS, networking) and coding(2 questions). 

Marks distribution was not given in the test but coding questions carries more marks, all the people who complete both the questions will definitely get selected for interviews. 

Coding questions were not very tough, 10-15 days of online coding practice can get you through.

2. Technical Interviews: 

There will be two rounds of technical interviews. In 1st round interviewer gave me a problem and asked to write code for that.

Problem: 

Write a function for following scenario:

Input: An array [r,g,r,g,b,g,g,b,r]

Output:An array [r,r,r,g,g,g,g,b,b]

after this he asked about various object oriented concepts, from my areas of interest and projects.

In 2nd technical interview, i was asked about oops concept in detail. Program to show all the oops concepts, 1 more simple programming question related to sorting and its optimization after that error handling and 1 SQL query. I couldn't write the query.

3. Managerial round:

Questions about SAP, i was asked if i know about any of the SAP products, difference between service based company and product based company, my achievements, regrets.

4. HR interview.

They offered me 6.25 + 2 lac joining bonus = 8.25 which is same what they offered in college. If any student wants to contact me regarding Honeywell or SAP you can give him/her my email i.d or contact number.

Thanks to Shubham Gupta for sharing his experience. 


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    INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE-II (Namitha)

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1st round - Online Test(6 sections including Coding)

2nd round - Group Discussion

Problem Statement :

 Hospital Management System

Problems faced in the hospital and solutions to improve the current system.

3rd round - Technical Interview(Around 1 hr)

Regarding Open elective Subject: 

What is Management Information System?

Discussion on analyzing the data and drawing decisions.

Real time data mining application used by the company ?

Techniques used to analyze the data?

How can you use this concept in your college?

Workshops:

What is Cloud computing?

Is Gmail a cloud?

All other websites cloud?

What is Android?

Have you built any android app? Abstract of the project

Language used in android? (c++, java or c)

DBMS:

ER diagram for Customer,Bank and Branch

What is the difference between RDBMS and DBMS?

Programming languages:

What is an object?

What is a statics variable?

Why do you make main static in java and not in c++?

Why dont you use multiple inheritance in java?

What is a compiler?

What are the errors detected by the compiler?

How will int a=8 be stored in the memory?

Compiler used for java and c++?Is it the same?

Can we compile c code in c++ compiler?

Is c++ an object oriented language?

How an expression will be evaluated by the compiler?

Write the code to find the largest in the set of nos

What is Data Structure?

Why do you need linked list when you have stack?

Real time application of Stack and Queue

Which data structure will be used to evaluate an expression?

Why is this keyword used in java?

Is virtual keyword used in c++ ?

What is the interface used in java?

Why do we use Runnable?

Why do we need an interface in java?

What is a thread? Is it used in java? 

Why is java a platform independent language?

Operating Systems

What is paging?

What is external fragmentation?

4th round - Managerial Interview(Around 20 min)

Self introduction which describes everything about you including your academics.

Example from your life where you have handled somthing efficiently?

Where you frustrated anytime when handling it?

Instance where your team members wern't supportive when handling that event.What did you do?

What will you do if your colleague is not able to do the work properly?Will you cover up his mistake?

Should a manager be a good developer?

What if you finish your work before the deadline and you are free in office hours?

What have you planned for future?

Somthing which you dont like in you? How did you work on that?

About my project,achievements,workshops

5th round - HR(Around 20 min)

How was the day?

What solution did you give in GD?

What is cloud in the terms i can understand?(Cloud was the solution i gave in GD)

Do you find engineering monotonous?

What is the difference between IT and CS?

Extra curicular activities

Puzzle: How do you find the weight of Howla Bridge?

How many companies did you sit?

Why SAP and not Microsoft?(Since i said Microsoft was the first company and it was just an experience)

Are you a slow learner?

Regarding Higher education:

How many years would you take before going for higher education?

Why dont you percieve MBA immediatly after your engineering?Why do you need these many years before MBA?

Is SAP a stepping stone for you?

Why dont you do a full time MBA instead of joining our company and doing part time?

Thanks to Namitha for sharing her experience. 

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    INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE-III (Vidur Bhatnagar)

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For SAP one has to focus only on DS and DBMS and some logical reasoning.

Written Test

The first round is online test in which there are 2 coding questions and 5 sections of verbal and quant.

 If you get the coding question right the other sections does not matter. 

Coding has the highest weightage. 

Also the questions are highly repetitive and some are easy also. 

Coding is based in java. 

My question was reversing a string, changing cases sub string etc.

Design Round

Then there was a design round in which you need to create a complete design of a scenario. 

Ours was hospital management system. If u do good they will ask to make the use case class diagram etc

Technical interview

Then there was a technical interview. 

It began with discussion about my projects, a few puzzles which i got wrong.

 Then a few dbms queries like using 'having' 'groupby' date time queries etc which i got all right.

 Then there were ds questions like finding a loop in a linked list, oops concepts like interfaces, virtual keyword etc. 

 So even though i got the puzzles wrong, the technical part made me through this round.

The next round was managerial which i turned around to be an interview on my projects and managerial work. 

HR Round

Last round was HR.

All rounds were elimination rounds. Package was 8.25l and location can be both Gurgaon and Bangalore.

Thanks to Vidur Bhatnagar for sharing his experience. 

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Jay Jagannath Swami Nayana Patha Gami Bhaba Tume Bhaba Tume ...    

Mr. Tribikram Pradhan

Research Scholar, Dept. of CSE

Indian Institute of Technology, (BHU), Varanasi

E-Mail:  tribikram14@gmail.com