Senior Staff Firmware 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 Senior Staff Firmware Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Senior Staff Firmware Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Background check: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
One on one interview: 9%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Email / call: HR 10 minutes
Phone interview: 1 hour with hiring manager.
On site: 5-8 people each 45 minutes asking technical questions
One slot is for HR, one for hiring manager, rest are technical interviewers.
Find out result after 1-2 weeks. First day is orientation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
explain how semaphores and mutex are used.
what structure is used in making your own malloc command.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Broadcom (Vancouver, BC) in Apr 2012
Interview
Not that difficult. It's a panel interview, during which we mostly chatted about my past experience. People then asked technical questions here and there to see how hands on I was and whether I really had the experience I described in my resume. There were some whiteboard drawing to explain the stuff I was doing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give some examples of the interesting problems you resolved.