Tech IndustryJan 26, 2021
Newvoodoodev

Have you ever heard about SAP hybris? (Would you work at it?)

From what I understand this sap hybris thing is a cms for generating e-shops, similar to Magento and zencart, only it is written in java and is owned by SAP. It has a monolith architecture and from what I saw it is based on pretty old tech (jsps, lots of xmls) and a lot of custom stuff. The fact that you will work on this at SAP may guarantee a few things (wlb, job security, maybe perks) because SAP as a company I understand is pretty prestigeous. But taking this hybris thing in to consideration, would working on this framework (not using it, developing new things for newer versions of it) be ok for your career as an engineer? Is this position comparable to an engineer that works for example at Microsoft Teams or a team at Amazon that builds internal tools or some AWS service? I am not very sure how a position like this one may compare to jobs at widely known big tech companies. (I don't want to be rude, but to me it seems like garbadge this hybris thing, but maybe I am just too arrogant). Btw, now they call it SAP Commerce.

commercetools HEuM20 Jan 26, 2021

Hybris was built in 90s and has seen feature bloat for decades, so you can imagine the amount of technical debt and legacy you’ll be working with. They started building YaaS, a modern commerce platform, only to retire it prematurely just around when the headless e-commerce era was about to explode.

SAP Kduo32 Jan 26, 2021

Since when is SAP pretty prestigious?

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voodoodev OP Jan 26, 2021

I saw a few mentions about SAP here and thought that maybe is in a league below msft and amazon.

SAP Kduo32 Jan 26, 2021

Maybe in Germany. Not in Bay Area. Regarding the job ask if after you pay your dues fixing bugs in 20 year old Java code you can transfer to new micro services