Summary
- Published 2025-07-15 · slug
sap-cicd-intern-final-interview-retro · category "Hiring, interviews, and careers / Recruitment processes and interview retrospectives" · source article recorded in Korean and English. - A retrospective on applying for SAP's Software Engineer (CI/CD Application) role, progressing through phone screening, a presentation and technical interview with an English presentation of the financial chatbot project, and an HR interview, before rejection.
- Three hypotheses about the result: insufficient depth in the Python and AI internals of the application being deployed; failure to explain the project through Dockerization, CI, and CD; and comparatively limited experience with production CI/CD.
- Plan: understand Python and AI internals, and develop the habit of designing and documenting an end-to-end pipeline using a Dockerfile and GitHub Actions, even for a small practice project.
- Conclusion: the interviewers wanted to understand how I made the project run, beyond what I built.
Mentioned
- SAP: the prospective employer.
financial_advisor: the financial chatbot project presented in the interview.
Connections
- Writing · Applications
- Atomic notes: Using a library and explaining its internals are different skills · Explain a project through Dockerization, CI, and CD; interviewers want to know how it runs · Q: Is the Google ML Bootcamp financial chatbot the same project as
financial_advisor? - Concepts: CI/CD · Docker · Gemma-2B · GitHub Actions · MLOps · End-to-end testing · i18n and multilingual support · Running a technical blog · Presentations · Cloud and CI
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