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Software Consultant at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) May 2011 – Reviewed May 08, 2013
Interview Details Couple of technical rounds, management round.
Interview Question – None Answer Question
Negotiation Details – They provide salary based on years of experience. They dont check the hike percentage etc.
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Systems Engineer at Novell
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details Typically is a 3 stage process. Stage 1 is the hiring manager interview. Stage 2 is the role's Director interview and Stage 3 is HR.
Interview Question – Do a 10 minute solution presentation on a product Answer Question
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Technical Support Engineer at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Provo, UT (US) – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details
Phone calls from hiring manager.
Interview - phone screen.
Interview focused on situational questions rather than behavioral.
Offer given on the spot.
Overall process is standard for entry level positions.
Interview Question – troubleshooting. Basic flow for thought. How would you solve problem A. Some of the problems were screenshots of errors, just to see how you would approach a problem. Answer Question
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Senior Software Engineer at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Dec 2011 – Reviewed Apr 04, 2013
Interview Details
clean
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ethical
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Software Engineer I at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Provo, UT (US) Jun 2009 – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013
Interview Details Met with various managers on the team and team members. The higher software engineers asked more technical questions and managers asked more typical where do you want to be type questions. It was at least 4 hours interview. I also had to interview with the HR person at the beginning.
Interview Question – One of the engineers asked me to solve a link list problem Answer Question
Negotiation Details – It was with the hiring manager and she was very nice and it was very fast. Two phone calls
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Software Consultant at Novell
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Feb 23, 2013
Interview Details
I got a call from SJ Consultancy mentioning there is a requirement for Test Engineer in IC role. The recruiter from Novell called me and arranged the interview.
> 2 F2F Technical interviews and 1 managerial round
> 1 onsite telecon interview with Senior manager/Director
> 1 F2F Director round followed by HR interview
Interview Question – As usual .. routine questions Answer Question
Reason for Declining – The recruiter and HR are least professional - I need to follow up them for many times And there were negotiating the salary for 10-15% . Before forwarding the resume I mentioned clearly that i was expecting a decent hike. Really got disappointed with the whole process ...
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Project Manager at Novell
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Feb 16, 2013
Interview Details The phone interview and then call in interview and then another call in interview which is all day long
Interview Question – When do you sleep and wake up Answer Question
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QA Engineer at Novell
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Jan 26, 2013
Interview Details Symphony telca called up & send interview to their client Novell. Had tw0 F2F rounds. Both rounds many questions on windows & Linux. We can answer most of the questions (not much difficult) But interviewer was expecting the answer that he knows, so if a question has multi answrs / multi ways to answer then ur bad luck :) And I felt they should have looked up for a well experienced Sys admin instead of a QA Engineer. So I didnt continued the process.
Interview Question – Unexpected: What you do if windows installation doesnt find the hard disk, but disk is present. Interesting is he was looking answer for which he knows / which he is facing in his work. He may shd know there will be a many reasons when windows not find disk :) Answer Question
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Senior Software Engineer at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Chennai (India) Apr 2008 – Reviewed Dec 17, 2012
Interview Details It consisted of a written test, a technical round, a Managerial round and then a HR round. Written and technical round were based on testing basics and scenario based testing,debugging or test case writing. Fairly simple. Managerial round had discussions on career goals, projects done etc. HR round was just goals and compensation.
Interview Question – Nothing specific. It was simple. But it purely depends on your interviewer. I have heard people handling tough questions on coding,algorithms for a post of automation test engineer. View Answer
Negotiation Details – They are open to negotiate, if there is an urgent requirement.
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Software Engineer at Novell
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Aug 2012 – Reviewed Dec 13, 2012
Interview Details
First round: Written round compromising of 3 sections; logic, operating system+networks and programming language concepts
Interview: 2 rounds of interview, First by the technical engineer and next by the director of software development
Interview Question – The syntax of a header file, suppose <stdio.h> and few different questions related to compilation of a program and its steps Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Was not negotiable. Got a fixed salary of 6.2 lpa which included a joining salary of 50k INR
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