I applied online. I interviewed at Broadcom in Feb 2014
Interview
I get an phone interview, mostly about some knowledge of communication system, including the relationship between inteference, phase offset and constellation map. And I get an on-site interview after one week. Most of the question is about C++, include memory allocation, binary tree and operator overloading.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A engineer asked me. What is the difference between RLS adaptive filter and gradient descent filter. At which situation you should use gradient descent filter.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom in Mar 2013
Interview
Referred by a friend and get recruiter within a week. mostly C/C++ questions like array of function pointers, return of (p++) etc. One algorithm question asked was "write a function to reverse a string".
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Jun 2013
Interview
I interviewed at Broadcom in Irvine for IC Test Engineer - Intern position. The interview consisted of 5 people interviewing me back to back for half an hour each. I believe this was a very last minute position they had to fill up fast so they were really unorganized. They all asked me same questions back to back. They were also all over the place. Eventhough the position was for IC - CMOS Test Engineering, they were asking me control systems questions!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the difference between the left hand rule and the right hand rule in magnetics?