Novell Interview,first Job offer

It was a Thursday morning 5-8-10 and Novell was visiting my campus,NIT Durgapur.PPT was scheduled at 8 am and I reached there few mins late as I always do and soon it got started.Novell's products and services includes virtualization,Identity management,cloud computing,networks and other data centre services summing upto 65 products.I was always inclined to all these keywords and finally I decided to head for written test.PPT lasted for about 1 hr.
We all headed towards written test venue.Question booklet and answer sheet were distributed.There were about 7-8 sets of test booklets.Details :

It included 3 sections:
Section 1: Aptitude(Included sentence ordering,quant ) -15 quesns.
Section 2: System concepts(Included questions on DS,complexities and recurrence equations,few basic fundas of computers like microprogrammed and stuffs,questions on timeslice etc.).-20 quesns.
Section 3: Programming(C programming outputs and questions on precedence order).15 quesns.

All together there were 50 questions which had to be done in 60 minutes.Instructions were given one should give 20 mins each for all the 3 sections .Cutoffs will be decided for each sections and I followed the same.60 mins flew away.I didnt realize.level of the Paper was average.I fould verbal a bit time consuming.Rest everything was a cakewalk.So I suggest you to complete all the sections and get back to verbal part at last.
Next was PI.I returned for Lunch and was very excited to know about the results.One of my friend announced my selection in the hostel mess and my heart started pumping faster.I finished my lunch and was on with my last minute preparations.16 people were shortlisted.Interview schedule was from 12 noon to 7 pm and every one was scheduled with a gap of 30 minutes.My interview was at 2.15 pm .It was running late and started at 3:10.I entered the room,shook hands with everybody,got seated,presented my resume and questions started flooding :).First I was asked about my project.Then they asked me to tell somthing about myself and about my field of interest.What I love to do and all.I answered "problem solving".Hence,I was asked to write pseudocodes for the problems .About 4-5.Then they asked me to define few string library functions such as strcpy,strncpy and few others.Few DS implementations,sorting algorithms and technical was over.:):) Then they started with HR questions.Included questions like my achievements,something like I would like to go back to the past and change,why do you want to join us and all .Last few questions were do you have any other offer? wanna go for higher studies? .It ended all well.I received a T-shirt titled 100 in 100.After that I was restless and waiting for the results.Now time was moving very slowly.I had my dinner and I my friend called me around 9:30 pm and congratulated.I was asked to reach the same PI room for some formalities.We all reached there,clicked photographs and they presented us a lappy bag and a jean shirt.Both are cool.After this it was all fun and frolic with few hits and I slept peacefully.The day ended well with my new facebook status msg ,new gtalk msg stating my new professional destination NOVELL INDIA DEVELOPMENT(SOFTWARE) PVT. LTD. ,Bangalore(a city were I always wanted to be after being a computer engineer).Thanks to everybody for your wishes.In zest it was all fun and the life moves on.