Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Broadcom as 75% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and Sales Manager rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Digital Sales Associate and Sales Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Broadcom takes an average of 14 days when considering 4 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom in Nov 2011
Interview
Simple Cmos questions about putting together nand gates and so forth. Each interview seemed to ask the same similar technical questions. They asked a lot about my hobbies and interest. I think they are interested in see how you pursue interest in the subject and major depending on how much outside activities.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2012
Interview
During the phone interview, I talked for 1 hour with the group leader. He mainly asked me questions about concepts of operating systems and C programming, e.g., what is static variable in C, what is auto variable, what is race condition and what is the difference between process and thread, and the like.
I was informed to take the on-site in roughly two days after that.
During the on-site interview process, I was interviewed by four people. Questions include operations on linked list, embedded system, how a process is functioning, how to test a segment of memory using C and some questions related to my resume, mainly about my past education and working experience.
The office and work culture look pretty nice. Suggestions to other candidates would be to familiar with operating system concepts and details of using C, especially when you ask for a firmware design or test engineer which is more related to hardware level.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Using C programming language, how would you test the memory bitcells of a certain segment given to you?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2011
Interview
I applied online and the recruiter spoke to me saying that my resume was impressive. It was because had testing experience from Polycom where i was interning before.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Asked about my previous testing experience at Polycom and some basic networking questions related to FTP,selective acknowledgement , TCP and UDP
The interviewer was explaining exactly the Job i would doing as an intern and he was trying to know whether i had done similar kind of work during the previous jobs.