Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Broadcom as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for SWE Engineer and Operador De Telemarketing rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for SWE Engineer and Operador De Telemarketing roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Broadcom takes an average of 30 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for SWE Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 30 days), whereas SWE Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 30 days).
It took 3 weeks for the process. The HR emailed me for dates and I was told that there would be a technical phone interview on data structures, algorithms. I had two back-to-back one hour technical phone interviews. I was asked to write code for one question and submit it later. I was asked questions on hash map, heaps, computer architecture etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Broadcom in Mar 2014
Interview
Written Test(Aptitude + Technical) followed by 2 Personal Interviews(1 technical + 1 HR)
Subjects to focus on : Computer Networks,Operating Systems, C programming,Computer Architecture.
Some Questions :
1.What is the size of the void pointer?
2.How Interrupts are handled?
3.Context Switch
4.TCP/IP
5.Silly Window Syndrome
6.Recursion v/s Iteration