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).
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom in Oct 2011
Interview
Asked basic questions
1.Modulation techniques
2.Design of basic communication system
3.Covolutional codes
4.Turbo codes
5.AWGN model
6.near far effect
7.Bandwidth of qpsk and bpsk and which one is larger.
6.near far effect
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR question :
8 balls given identical in size .out of 8 balls one of the ball weighs slightly heavier than other balls.
one weihging pan is given and we can only weigh twice to figure out
one of the heaviest ball.
the heavire ball out
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom in Nov 2011
Interview
The written test had three sections- general Mathematics, Communication Systems and C. The test was of very high standards. One has to be familiar with probability and Expectations. Practice with Fourier transforms, Estimation theory, Random variables and wireless communication( MIMO, OFDM, PAM etc ) is a must.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If an N point DFT X[z] is sub sampled by 2 to Y[z], what is y[n]
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
Interviewed with 10 product engineers/managers, all in one day. It was 45 minutes per session, with a 90 minutes lunch interview with the hiring manager and a senior product engineer. For the first 9 interviewers, I felt that it went relatively well with questions regarding product engineering responsibilities such has managing products from the design phase, to production release, to finally end-of-life. We talked about cost saving projects, test correlations, device characterization, and reliability qualifications for products (HTOL, ESD, Latch Up), and package (HAST, HTS, TC), etc, etc...