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 (Irvine, CA) in Oct 2010
Interview
1. having phone interview
2. on-site interview from 1pm to 5pm
Each half hour, one interviee came in and discussed basic technical questions and background
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
interview question:
1. what all networking courses taken?
2. what is an IP address? Size?
3. What is a MAC address? Size?
4. IP address given 255.255.0.0. How many hosts?
5. TCP and UDP? Sliding window protocol? Packet acknokledgment?
6. PCI? How to identify a PCI device on a PCI bus?
7. What is ARP?
8. Which platform comfortable with?
9. Which tool do you use to edit the registry? Are you able to modify it?
10. Where are the device driver programs stored?
11.Wireshark? Explain what I worked?
12.What is cache? How is it used?
13.What was the Honeywell Experience?
14.Level of software work involved?