I applied to SAP for a "dual curriculum" before I enrolled for a normal bachelor's degree at a university. We call it "Duales Studium" and it's when you go to university for 3 months and then work in the company for 3 months and so on. You basically are able to get a university degree while getting paid.

I got rejected because I didn't seem interested enough during my 2 days internship a few weeks before. We were mostly just shown around and had some small workshops about social skills and ABAP programming.

I guess I didn't ask enough questions or stand out enough. I also wasn't aware that doing an internship for 2 days at a place can actually be used against you, lol. Kinda obvious in hindsight though.

Very happy that I didn't go down this path. I think I mostly applied because of the status / CV aspect (and I didn't know any better). Being able to get into SAP is similar to how some people want to get into FAANG - so they can mention it in their CVs, lol. And now I know that I don't like big companies. The company I worked for before was already too big for me even though it was still a quite small company. It grew a lot during the 3 years I was there.