The hiring manager called directly for a phone interview and then had the HR schedule an onsite interview. Had the onsite in two weeks but took four weeks before hearing back about the offer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Broadcom (Sunnyvale, CA)
Interview
Interview was casual and not very formal. I talked to 6 engineers and the manager. They did not ask a lot of technical questions but wanted to understand my working style. They focus more upon the teamwork spirits and the problem solving capability instead of the real technical details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some C++ details which I had a disagreement with one of the interviewers.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Broadcom (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Jun 2011
Interview
There was an initial telephonic interview with the hiring manager which lasted for about 30 mins. At the end of the telephonic conversation, the hiring manager expressed his interest to meet me in person. A f2f interview was scheduled later that week.
The f2f interview lasted for about 5-6 hours happening over 4 rounds. It covered mostly the basics and stuff that has been mentioned in the CV. The C interview was tricky, but nothing too difficult. No group/panel interview.
Later that day, I had a chance to meet the HR person.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
how would you reverse a 32 bit integer ?? for eg if the input is 0x76543210 the output has to be 0x01234567