SAP Labs India interview process (2026)

Round-by-round breakdown of the SAP Labs India software engineering interview across 4 levels and 17 rounds: interview mode, sample questions, and worked solutions.

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Software Engineering Intern (iXp / on-campus developer intern; Scholar@SAP variant)

Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: 6-month · Recommended prep: 4-8 weeks · Cooldown: No formally published cooldown; typical campus re-applicatio

  1. Round 0: Online Assessment (DSA coding + CS MCQs)

    Assessment · 45-75 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Online assessment · HackerRank

    Sample question: Move Zeroes — Given an array, move all zeroes to the end while keeping the relative order of the non-zero elements unchanged, done in-place with no extra array. Example: [1,7,5,4,0,0,9,0,2,3,3] -> [1,7,5,4,9,2,3,3,0,0,0].

  2. Round 1: Technical Interview 1

    Onsite · 40-60 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview

    Sample question: Maximal Square — Given an m x n binary matrix filled with 0s and 1s, find the largest square that contains only 1s and return its area. (SAP interviewers ask for the brute-force first, then push for the O(m*n) DP solution.)

  3. Round 2: Technical Interview 2

    Onsite · 30-45 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview

    Sample question: Number of Islands — Given an m x n binary grid where 1 is land and 0 is water, count the number of islands. An island is a group of 1s connected 4-directionally (up/down/left/right). Return the count.

  4. Round 3: HR Interview

    Behavioral · 10-45 minutes · difficulty 1/5

    Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview

Developer Associate (fresher / campus + FTE, 0-2 yrs)

Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: 2-4 weeks · Recommended prep: 4-8 weeks · Cooldown: ~6-12 months

  1. Round 0: Online Assessment (HackerRank / SHL)

    Assessment · ~75-120 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Online assessment

    Sample question: Reverse a Linked List — Reverse a singly linked NULL-terminated list in one pass over the nodes. Read n then n values; build the list, reverse it iteratively, and print the values in reversed order.

  2. Round 1: Technical Interview 1

    Phone · ~45-60 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Remote phone or video interview

    Sample question: Second Largest Element in an Array — Find the second largest DISTINCT element in an array in one pass. Read n then n values; print the second largest distinct value, or -1 if it does not exist.

  3. Round 2: Technical Interview 2 (depth + projects)

    Onsite · ~40-60 minutes · difficulty 2/5

    Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview

    Sample question: Sort Colors (Sort array of 0s, 1s and 2s) — Given an array containing only 0s, 1s and 2s, sort it in a single pass without using a library sort. Read n then n values; print the sorted array space-separated.

  4. Round 3: Managerial Round

    Behavioral · ~30-45 minutes · difficulty 2/5

    Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview

  5. Round 4: HR Round

    Offer · ~20-30 minutes

    Mode of interview: Offer discussion

Developer (mid-level lateral, ~2-4 yrs)

Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: ~2-6 weeks · Recommended prep: 3-6 weeks · Cooldown: No published policy (LOW confidence).

  1. Round 0: Technical Round 1 (coding)

    Phone · ~45-60 minutes · difficulty 2/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Remote phone or video interview

    Sample question: Kth Smallest Element in a BST — Given values inserted into a BST, return the k-th smallest element (an optimized inorder solution is expected). Read n, then n values to insert, then k; print the k-th smallest value.

  2. Round 1: Technical Round 2

    Onsite · ~45-60 minutes · difficulty 2/5

    Mode of interview: Onsite or virtual onsite interview

    Sample question: Min Stack (stack with getMin in O(1)) — Design a stack supporting push, pop, top and retrieving the minimum element, all in O(1). Read q operations (push x | pop | top | getMin) and print the output of each top/getMin.

  3. Round 2: Managerial Round

    Behavioral · ~30-45 minutes · difficulty 2/5

    Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview

  4. Round 3: HR Round

    Offer · ~20-30 minutes

    Mode of interview: Offer discussion

Senior Developer (lateral, ~5+ yrs)

Difficulty: Medium · Timeline: ~2-6 weeks · Recommended prep: 4-6 weeks · Cooldown: No published policy (LOW confidence).

  1. Round 0: Technical Round 1 (coding + system reasoning)

    Phone · ~45-60 minutes · difficulty 3/5 · elimination round

    Mode of interview: Remote phone or video interview

    Sample question: Regular Expression Matching — Implement regular expression matching with support for '.' (any single char) and '*' (zero or more of the preceding element); the match must cover the entire input string. Read string s then pattern p (two lines); print true or false.

  2. Round 1: Technical / System Design Round

    System_design · ~45-60 minutes · difficulty 3/5

    Mode of interview: Live system design interview

    Sample question: Design the REST API + data model for shopping-cart checkout / order management — Design the REST API and underlying data model for the checkout flow of a shopping cart: cart -> checkout -> order, including how the Order ID is generated, the class/ER relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many between user, cart, item, order), and how you would structure the database for an order-management system. Discuss idempotency of checkout and REST best practices.

  3. Round 2: Managerial / Hiring Manager Round

    Behavioral · ~30-45 minutes · difficulty 2/5

    Mode of interview: Live behavioral interview

  4. Round 3: HR Round

    Offer · ~20-30 minutes

    Mode of interview: Offer discussion

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