SAP

• Multinational company with great projects
• Benefits
• Some nice colleagues

I know there are great people at SAP, and the majority of teams are great. I am very grateful towards my supervisor and other SAP colleagues who helped me join SAP, and the few who were nice to me. But this just helps me clear my mind.

From 2018 to 2019, I was an intern at SAP Montreal. I am sure I was discriminated against, either for being an intern, a minority, or my physical condition, or all of them. This is why.

Although there were some nice people on the team I worked with, I was discriminated against by a few in my team.

First of all, I wasn't welcomed at all to the team. Some devs who didn't interview me didn't even know my CV or my profile. They never cared, so there was some mean treatment from the start. And obviously, I did not receive a farewell letter or something like that when I left.

In contrast, German colleagues who visited the Montreal team always received a warm welcome and were invited to activities such as lunch and other team-building meetings. They also received a warm goodbye, even if they came for only two days the first time.

In particular, there was a person on my team's business side that never spoke to me, emailed me, or invited me to meetings like Backlog Grooming or Story Building, or to follow up on the work I was doing. I was treated as a worthless employee/person. This person did not follow the work I was doing and did not discuss with me or invite me to meetings to talk.

In contrast, this person spoke frequently with only a few people on the team and German managers. During Scrum meetings or other meetings, or during a demo, this person always looked down or texted while I was speaking. This person's intention was to never acknowledge me. This person spoke mostly with people of the same origin and German staff. This person never built a friendly relationship with me and never included me in the team. I never had one-on-one discussions with this person, and this person never made eye contact with me!

There were these few times where she would speak to my supervisor to get info from me instead of asking me directly the questions. In addition, I never received a work email from this person or an invitation to a work meeting. For instance, I never got an email containing business side information about the project I worked on, or about next initiatives, or job opportunities in the team.

This basically destroyed my chances of getting a full-time position with the team and SAP. I will never understand how someone so unkind, so disrespectful, and so cold can manage to get a leadership role with such a great company.

This experience had such a negative impact on my mental health that I am still recovering. I was always respectful. I went to every single meeting. I did all the work I was assigned by my supervisor. I have excellent academic results from a great university in Montreal. I just don't understand why I got such bad treatment. I guess life is unfair.

Anyone who has a leadership role must be kind, respectful, open-minded, and friendly.

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