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 through a recruiter. I interviewed at Broadcom (Santa Clara, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Interviewed with two managers, 5 IC Design Engineers. Total 7 people
The interview process took the whole day from 10AM to 4:30 PM. One manager took me for lunch after his interview session and then I came back for next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-High/low pass filter passive and active design and frequency domain
-What is PLL and draw the diagram, graph, and explanations
-Draw the logic circuit diagram for Half/full adder
-Draw circuit to divide a clock into two
-How to debug on coding based on memory address/content info.
-Calculate voltage from a circuit
-Transmission line and its resistance related question.
-Embedded board power failure trouble shooting
-Algorithms questions for binary search tree and other questions.
Basically to write down your thoughts on a white board and explain the result/thinking process.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Broadcom (Singapur) in Feb 2012
Interview
Total of around 10 face to face interviews and 1 video conference interview. Overall experiemce was good, for me to know the company and people better. Interviewers ranging from rank and file employees to VPs, quite intensive.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
two phone interview and two rounds on-site interview, using webEX. Asking memory management such as heap & stack, and something on your resume. So be well prepared for basic knowledge of OS and computer architecture for the interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of it is focus on programming language C, data structure, OS, heap, stack and memory management