SAP fighting for Silicon Valley talent with face-to-face pitch

Published Thu, Nov 13, 2014 · 09:50 PM

Berlin

SAP SE, the German software company with more than 13,000 employees in the US, is competing with Google Inc and Facebook Inc for top Silicon Valley graduates the old-fashioned way: a face-to-face pitch.

"Not a lot of companies are doing that anymore, this is where you gain traction," Stefan Ries, SAP's personnel chief, said on Thursdayat Bloomberg's Berlin office.