I applied for a job through the company website. I had a phone interview, then was invited to an on-site interview. They were very polite, but the process was very formal and serious. The interviewers were extremely smart from a technical standpoint, and asked very difficult technical questions - mostly about my background and detailed textbook questions. They were definitely looking for the brightest engineers they could find. They gave me a good offer. On my first day of work, someone told me congratulations and that I must be someone special to be hired by Broadcom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
During the interview I was asked a question about binary search algorithms (tree data structures). I.e. how would you search through a tree data structure to sort data?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2010
Interview
Had initial phone screen back in June 2007. This was for their MPS division which works on cellular chipsets i.e. GSM/UMTS. Was invited to onsite interview. Had 4-5 interviews, all technical in nature. There was a written test as well with C programming questions. Was asked general questions about UMTS technology. Received offer and accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does the debugger work when setting a break point if it's a multi processor environment?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Broadcom in Feb 2013
Interview
Applied through referral. Recruiter contacted and scheduled two back-to-back phone interview in the following week. Mix of probability and algorithm questions. There was no onsite interview. Overall process was smooth and quick. Interviewers were friendly.