I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Jun 2011
Interview
Started with a phone interview that just asked basic questions to set up an in person interview.
Flew me across the country to interview in person. Panel of would be coworkers each brought in a technical question to ask me. I did terrible, I am the kind of person who excels in a lab environment not a testing environment, so it was very difficult for me.
Had to make up solutions to problems on a white board, off the top of my head in pseudo-code.
It felt like I was being asked to remember a bunch of programming questions from my second year of college, so if you are book smart the interview should be a breeze.
If you don't have all your programming concepts committed to memory it may be more difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to do binary manipulation operations despite me saying I had no experience in it. Did my best and finished the problem, but these kind of things are something I could of made work perfectly in less time with a computer and an internet connection.
I was given a question papaer with 20 c questions, basic syntax errors, data structures etc were asked, all were fill in the blanks or descriptive type of questions. The topics also covered Networking, OS, Arcitecture and debugging.
took 4 rounds of interview, 3 leetcode question, 1 system design. The leetcode question is pretty standard, but the system design question is hard. It took more than 1 hour for that round.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Broadcom (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jan 2026
Interview
A phone call with an employee, then schedule an interview. Interview on the office with two interviewers. Standard process, nothinf special. Two technical question, one leetcode style, second very weired.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Ttell me abou myself.
One leetcode medium problem without writing code.
One weired and not well defined question.
