I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom
Interview
The interview process was fairly straightforward but thorough. One phone interview and then on site interview. Phone interview consisted of 8 questions of moderate difficulty on basic single stage amplifiers and step responses. On site interview was pretty intense from 9am to 3:15pm with 6 people not including HR. Questions included current mirrors (matching and sizing), basic PLL (stability), switched capacitor circuits(noise), ADC basics (aliasing, transfer functions), feedback (output impedance), OTA structures (slew rate, bandwidth), supply independent biasing etc. A good preparation textbook is "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits by Behzad Razavi" and most of the questions had a form similar to end of chapter exercises and examples.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question about the integrated output noise due to switches in the feedback capacitor bank in a switched capacitor gain circuit.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom in Jan 2013
Interview
Very friendly and a good interview experience. Manager was nice and did not exhaust during interview. The interview was in a friendly manner usually with casual talk rather than technical talk.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
It took 2 hours for this interview by 4 employers in this group. All of them focused on different ways, like technical question, resume thing and just chatting. The manager is very nice, leading us to visit the work place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Be Asked questions about the courses I had just taken, as the fiber communication(this is unexpected).