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Non-boring SAP job?

• flopflopflop 15y ago
  From a pure techie point of view you can do great stuff there as a programmer. But the end-result is just nog as sexy as having developed games for an iphone or invented the New Social Thing. But your software scales over 100 gigs of RAM, is blazingly fast and can process transaction records in the order of 10,000s per second; that's non-boring to me :P
  • hessenwolf 15y ago
    Yes... but I think quite many of us older than 23 would rather program SAP than games or Iphone apps, although I wouldn't hazard a guess at the proportion.
• mrich 15y ago
  C++ developer working at SAP here, so my job is not exactly representative of SAP. That said, it is a very interesting job. We are building a distributed in-memory database that can power lots of SAP applications. We work with server machines with 2TB of RAM, gigantic SSD storage and many, many cores. You also get to work with application developers who have built the things that run at the core of the major companies in the world, and many of them have decades of experience at this. These applications will likely never be put in the cloud or replaced by something with just a nicer GUI, since the important thing is security, correctness and absolute stability. So do not rule out companies which seem to do "just boring" stuff when looking for your next job. Enterprise applications can be very challenging (and are also reliable money makers).