I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at SAP (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
Sent my resume to my friend who works in this organization. He referred me to some team in the company. Go a call the next day. They asked me to come over for face to face interview the next day. Went there and had interview for 2 hours by 4 people and later for 1 hour by upper management.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SAP (Budapest)
Interview
Short and very friendly. Since I've got good references, the classical interview approach was almost fully skipped. There were 3 stages, and my overall impression was: wow, I should have come here earlier!
People were friendly, felt rather like a discussion between friends then an interview. If you were recommended by an employee, chances are higher to get in. However, this is not guaranteed, if it turns out that e.g you don't have the required technical skills or your English is below average.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ABAP related test question. I've never seen ABAP before, so it was quite tricky.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SAP (Bengaluru) in Mar 2009
Interview
The interviews are pretty straightforward testing you on the programming language aspects of the language you have been working on.Might even move towards design patterns MVC being a hot favorite.Then database concepts are also tested asking if there has been prior experience in database design or optimization.Do expect SQL based questions-joins being a favorite again.Leadership experience is also sought after if experienced people are being interviewed.There could be chances people might ask you about compilers or data structures but they are less.