SAP Labs, India Interview Experience For Scholar@SAP

I recently had the opportunity to interview for the Scholar@SAP role at SAP Labs. This unique program allows students to work at SAP Labs while pursuing their M.Tech at BITS Pilani.

There were a total of 4 rounds :

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The online coding round was conducted on TalentCentral. We were given 2 coding questions on easy and medium DSA problems. The first was a unique sorting algorithm problem and the second one was on DP. We had 60 minutes to solve both the questions.

After this round, 6 people including me were selected for the first technical Round out of 250+ attendees.

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The first technical round began with a self-introduction. Following that, she asked questions about my projects which I mentioned in my resume. It was mainly focused on my projects.

1. Explain how a web browser retrieves data from a server when a URL is loaded.
2. What is DOM, and how is it used in web development?
3. How can you optimize web page load times other than image optimization?
4. Questions on cookies, session data, local storage, cache, and web security.
5. What is the difference between authentication and authorization?
6. What are closures and promises in JS?
7. What is React, and why did I use it in my project?
8. React hooks and their role in functional components.
9. Questions about the Version Control System.
10. Some questions about internship experiences.

This round was held for around 45 mins. After this round, 3 people were selected including me for the second technical round.

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He asked me to introduce myself. After the introduction, he asked me to open Notepad and present my screen.

• Explain the four fundamental principles of OOPs with coding examples.
• What is a constructor and copy constructor? Explain with examples.
• Explain access modifiers with examples.
• Coding Question: You were given a distinct array of numbers with a size of 10. Now write a method without using any built-in functions or importing any modules that should follow these three cases:

1. Print any random number from the array.
2. Ensure that no number repeats.
3. Exit the method once all the numbers from the array are printed.

Puzzle – You are given a 5 L and 3 L bucket and a running tap. You have to fill the bucket with 1 L.

This round lasted for around 40 minutes. After this round, I received a rejection mail. 2 people were selected, excluding me, for the final HR round.

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This round was based on HR questions, such as Why should we hire you? What are your strengths? Why SAP Scholar? How will you manage the pressure etc?

Later, I came to know that no one was selected for the Scholar@SAP role. Those two people also received rejection emails.