SAP Software Engineer interview experience

That part genuinely stood out. The technical rounds, though, left me puzzled.

In the technical portion, I got a string manipulation question that involved regex. I solved it using a straightforward loop-based approach, and when I suggested regex as a possible alternative, I pointed out that the time complexity would essentially be the same. What really threw me off was the reaction—I remember the interviewer laughing, which felt like it was connected to assumptions about how regex performs.

There was also a code review-style exercise that was unexpected. I was prepared for issues like