I applied for a job through the company website.

I had a phone interview, then was invited to an on-site interview.

They were very polite, but the process was formal and serious.

The interviewers were extremely smart from a technical standpoint and asked difficult technical questions, mostly about my background and detailed textbook concepts.

They were definitely looking for the brightest engineers they could find.

They gave me a good offer.

On my first day of work, someone told me, "Congratulations! You must be someone special to be hired by Broadcom."

During the interview, I was asked a question about binary search algorithms within tree data structures. Specifically, how would one search through a tree data structure to sort data?