Working at Broadcom
Working at Broadcom
- Very talented engineers and colleagues
- Great stock compensation
- Cutting edge technologies
- Very aggressive timelines and goals, which negatively impacts work-life balance.
- Low job security, as people are laid off even in profitable business units.
- Management expects all employees to work from campus during the COVID-19 pandemic, even when people can work from home and complete their projects/assignments.
- HR policies are not employee-friendly.
- Career growth opportunities are limited.
- There is a lot of internal politics.
- The CEO runs the company like a mutual fund portfolio, with not much investment in R&D for the future.
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Broadcom Interview Experiences
Senior Hardware Engineer
The interview had three rounds: * One behavioral round * One technical round with four interviewees * One round with HR The technical round included coding exercises and puzzle-solving. There was great emphasis on methodologies and scripting
Staff Engineer
The interview process was simple and consisted of standard questions found on the internet. I was asked to design a rate limiter using the sliding window algorithm. The interviewer was friendly. HR took time to respond, but after all rounds, they rel
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
This is about projects. The first DSA question was basic: return true if a number is repeated in an array, and false otherwise. The second question was about returning the count of repeated numbers. Maybe they would have asked more questions, but I r
Senior Hardware Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 12, 2025The interview had three rounds: * One behavioral round * One technical round with four interviewees * One round with HR The technical round included coding exercises and puzzle-solving. There was great emphasis on methodologies and scripting
Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 1, 2025The interview process was simple and consisted of standard questions found on the internet. I was asked to design a rate limiter using the sliding window algorithm. The interviewer was friendly. HR took time to respond, but after all rounds, they rel
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaOctober 1, 2024This is about projects. The first DSA question was basic: return true if a number is repeated in an array, and false otherwise. The second question was about returning the count of repeated numbers. Maybe they would have asked more questions, but I r
