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The one of my other interviews was an SAP ABAP Developer position in Charlotte, NC. I found the position at computerjobs.com then emailed. I got an answer from the company’s Corporate Recruiter on July 20th, 2006. He wanted me to apply formally to the position on the company’s website. Then he called me and talked for a while about position and my situation. One of the first things he told me is they wouldn’t pay relocation. I said all right not to loose interview chance. I thought it could be a good position. He then arranged a phone interview. An initial interview with a manager, and technical interview with a team member - SAP ABAP Developer on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006.

I’d like to note here just questions.

As far as I remember here are questions from the company’s Senior SAP Developer:

Question - 1: What is INITILIZATION event? What is it for?

Question - 2: What is the difference between Batch Input and CALL TRANSACTION?

Question - 3: How do you write drill-down reporting?

Question - 4: How do you write a BDC program?

Question - 5: How do you record a transaction?

Question - 6: What are data elements and domains?

Question - 7: What are PBO and PAI for?

Question - 8: What does CHAIN statement do?

Question - 9: What are Enque and Dequeue?

Question - 10: What is the difference between SELECT and SELECT SINGLE statements?

Question - 11: Can you tell me some transactions name you used for CALL TRANSACTION?

Question - 12: How do you use TABSTRIP?

Question - 13: What are the differences between PARAMETERS and SELECT-OPTIONS?

Question - 14: What are FIELD-SYMBOLS?

Question - 15: What are Extracts? How do you use them?

Question - 16: How do you leave from a Module Program to a Report Program?

As you see they are fundamental ABAP questions, good questions. It was not hard to answer these questions for me!

The manager asked some general questions about my goals, team working, my experiences, and she explained their department and expectations from employees.

So what happened then? After interview I was very hopeful to get a face-to-face interview, since the manager told me to contact Corporate Recruiter for the next step face-to-face interview.

While I had been waiting them to call me, a friend of mine in Atlanta said he had a Turkish friend who works an SAP Basis Consultant in Charlotte, NC.Then I just called him to get information about Charlotte and ask about his SAP experiences. I interestingly found out that he is working in the company which I was interviewed. What a coincidence God! I told him about interview then he told me that he could ask the manager and SAP ABAP Developer about interview. He told me that SAP Manager said they were still interviewing other candidates and would contact me soon. Obviously I was busy for other interviews while I was waiting.

After waiting for a while my new Turkish friend asked the company’s SAP ABAP Developer and he told me that SAP ABAP Developer was suspicious about my experiences, since I had not been working as an SAP ABAP Developer since 2003. He even had said I read some answers from somewhere for some questions. It means that he didn’t believe my answers entirely. This was a phone interview and I had a time to prepare it. If someone calls me for an interview, of course I would have lots of stuff in front of me. I actually looked just one of entries ‘Batch Input vs. CALL TRANSACTION’ to answer the question ‘What is the difference between Batch Input and CALL TRANSACTION?’ I don’t know! Whatever…

So after that I lost my hope to get a face-to-face interview. So they didn’t call me for a long time. But then almost one month later my new Turkish friend called me and he said they would me to come to Charlotte for face-to-face interview. But this time do you know where I was? I was in a hotel in my new city where I found my new job. I was looking an apartment with my family. I told him I already accepted a new job offer. I thanked a lot my Turkish friend, and then I emailed the company’s Corporate Recruiter about my new job. I told him I got an offer and accepted it and I was very excited to start my SAP career again! I even told him I was very sad for not hearing anything about his company.

All right this is my other story. One major story left before telling the new job.

Coming soon …

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