SAP SuccessFactors (HCM Cloud) interview questions and answers

SAP SuccessFactors is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) suite covering core HR, payroll, recruiting, onboarding, performance, learning and compensation.

Employee Central is the core HR module of SuccessFactors that stores employee data, organisational structures, job information and supports HR transactions.

The data model defines the fields and structures used in Employee Central, including the Corporate Data Model, Succession Data Model and country-specific models.

RBP controls what data and actions users can access by assigning permission roles to groups of users, based on the principle of least privilege.

Foundation Objects define organisation, job and pay structures — such as legal entity, location, department and pay grade — that are used across the system.