Embedded Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Broadcom with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Embedded Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Broadcom overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Broadcom as a Embedded Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I applied this March and it took me less than 3 weeks to get the chance for interview. As I applied for embedded software engineer. Background questions are firstly asked. Then some projects on C.V.. Because the interviewer is familiar with this project and he asked lots of questions. Then, questions about the hardware and software are asked, which is quite specialized.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The most unexpected question is that if a read-only variable which is defined by 'constant' will be allocated with the memory when compiling.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
They called me one day and suddenly started interviewing on the phone. He asked me talk again next day and I had a phone interview with a technical team. After the interview, hiring manager told me that ,he wants me to come on site for the interview.
after couple of weeks I went for the onsite interview, and it took a whole day for the interview process. I am really impressed they way they did my interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement strcpy function and show me if there are any limitation of this function. what if the 2 buffers passed to the strcpy function overlaps ?