Senior Staff 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 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Staff Engineer roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 43%
Phone interview: 29%
Background check: 29%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Broadcom (Bengaluru) in Mar 2010
Interview
Initial communications and planning was good. Interview process was quite good as most of the questions were based on the work done in previous job roles. There were no directed questions as such, but mainly to understand how the candidate copes with certain challenging situations. But the offer process is very delayed and expect to wait for few weeks to get the offer in hand.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Broadcom in Mar 2015
Interview
Basic phone screening followed by 3 technical rounds. All questions were on C programming and operating systems related. Also had a short round on embedded system design. The questions were moderately difficult but can't recollect much on this.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Broadcom (Hyderābād) in Jun 2011
Interview
Multiple interviews with focus on C, networking and operating systems, TCP/IP, switching, routing, protocols. Followed by HR Questions, salary discussions..DAta structure puzzles have been asked and system design principles. OSPF, RSTP
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Broadcom (Irvine, CA) in Mar 2011
Interview
It is very standard process and the people involved are very professional. Goes through whole day with bunch of engineers taking turn on 1-1 interview. More than technical, they look at how much yo adapt to their pace of work and culture.