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 recruiter did first a phone screening. The hiring manager conducted another phone interview.
After that invited to talk to 3-4 people from different groups. Sales, marketing and application.
Last stage was a one on one interview with the hiring manager's super visor.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (Richmond, BC) in May 2014
Interview
Applied through university co-op program. Got an interview 2 weeks after the application. Interview is one hour long, consist of 2 interviewers. About 15 minutes for introduction and going through resume, 45 minutes for technical questions. Technical questions were pretty straight forward. I was asked to reverse elements in a string, convert char to int, and to find set bits in a string. There was also some knowledge based questions, such as how to induce a memory leak.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Count the number of a specific pattern in a string. For example, given a string, find how "abc" there are in the string.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom in Dec 2012
Interview
On campus Interview which went for one day. First there was a written test on logical, arithmetic reasoning and on VLSI design. Out of the 12 shortlisted for interview 6 got selected