I applied online. I interviewed at SAP (Prague) in June 2026
Interview
Had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn for Development Architect position. I found it potentially a good match therefore I applied.
Recruiter reached out to me to have a 30 minutes screening call. The call went well but the company is in violation of EU Pay Transparency Directive, effective from June 7, 2026. Recruiter could not share salary range which violates the directive. They didn't get approval to share it from management. Without it it didn't make much sense to go through technical rounds, potentially wasting time. The recruiter was friendly, professional and polite.
Violation of EU Pay Transparency Directive is serious, it reflects negatively on the image of the company. I'm giving it neutral review because of it, otherwise it would have been positive.
I interviewed at SAP in Apr 2026
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about that position initially. The process felt very distant because he used some AI assistant to ask me some preliminary questions in DM. Then I was told to apply again on the SAP website. The experience of filling the application was very bad. I basically had to manually enter my CV again. Then, after 3-4 days I finally got a link to book the interview. The initial interview was cancelled short term before it would happen and we had to book another one. When I finally got to the interview the recruiter was 20 minutes left! We had a very short and rushed interview and I was promised feedback in a week. The time has passed, I had no updates and the recruiter does not respond to my follow-ups. I have never expected to be treated as badly as I was on an interview in a company of such level.
I applied in-person. I interviewed at SAP (Bengaluru) in Mar 2026
Interview
1. First round happened two months ago and i didn’t get any feedback i thought it was negative.
2. But when i am planning to join in another company before 3 days they came and told your feedback and profile very impressive so can we proceed like that from diff hr . I also given interviews in same day itself. Global leader manager is super excited to hire me and told that all your technical expertise and the profile is what we are looking so i ll ask hr to release offer immediately like that . Till here it was fine.
3. Again the moment when the first HR came in to picture he is not interested to give offer saying for 9 years in SAP its max budget is 40 including variable so you have current offer so we can’t proceed with that . Even if you ready to accept the sap offer i need to justify to business saying why this guy ignored the current offer and join with less pay like that it seems so he is not ready to hire me .
4. When technical team and global leader are interested, because of this HR behavior it’s not achievable. But when i asked the band where i fit in to what the range, he is not giving accurate band like T2 or T3 simply managing with other words .
5. When i checked the salary range for those band its close to my offer in hand value only am ready to go 2, 3 LPA low but HR not at all asking my opinion he himself decided to not give offer. But he agreed to global leader saying i ll release the offer today itself but behaving differently this side.
6. Even candidates are interested to join, HR is stopping.
Note:
Technical Team and Global leader manager and all like a gem guys. Very good in speaking and respecting people. Interviews were like a comfort discussion.
Very bad HR experience