I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ALSTOM (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
Received call from third party recruiter for Alstom as a direct payroll and scheduling interview took almost 2 weeks time. Attended first round of interview in month of June 2026.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is synchronous and asynchronous in sap? In case of synchronous which one is better odata or RFC?
2. What's better Odata, RFC or webservice?
3. What's difference between ALE and EDI?
4. How to update fields at VBAP and VBAK from a custom segment at IDOC?
5. There is one BAPI for purchase order create and there are 2; different programs. In one program BAPI us called with call function and in another program BAPI is called with destination none then what will happen? What will be different?
6. Export to memory is called and then update function module is called and inside update function import to memory is called then will that import statement work?
7. What is sap memory?
8. What's difference between ABAP cds and hana cds? Which one is better or higher performance?
9. Can we call hana cds directly at ABAP report?
I applied online. I interviewed at ALSTOM (Thunder Bay, ON)
Interview
HR, hiring Manager, Manager to the hiring manager. They scheduled the last interview, cancelled it last minute and never got back. Asked the HR for an update, and he promised to get back, which they have never done till now.
not good. Not at all systematic and organised. It could have been much better. Unclear JD and work post joining. Bad culture. No benefits. lots of Improvement needed. Everything was scattered. High iteration rate.