Broadcom Hardware Test / Validation Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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Broadcom
Test Engineer
Entry Difficult Neutral experience No offer 7 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Offer
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
Went through campus interview first. Nice and friendly people. Was invited to irvine for a day interview. Very professional admin stuff. They have their own travel department who issued tickets. Was very nice to let me stay in LA for a week (without hotel obvs). Hotel was excellent, preferential treatment with free parking, internet and room service credits. The interviews in Irvine HQ was with 7 people!!!!!!! Lots of repeat questions, not entirely sure what more they get out of the person compared to 3 45 min interviews besides the ability to handle coffee. Interviewers very friendly though, half chat half technical questions. In the end, it was an amazing company but a very disappointing position. Seems to be geared for nerdier people who want to settle and have no entrepreneurial aspirations or competitive drive. Average time to manager role: 10 years.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What is the voltage in between two series capacitors A and B connected to Vcc and ground?
Broadcom
Verification Engineer
Intern Average Positive experience Decline offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
Sent my Resume to my friend, who forwarded it to his Manager. I got a mail from the Manager asking for the times when I am free to have a quick Interview. Got a confirmation mail regarding the Interview date. It was a 45 minutes Phone Interview, which was basically a round of Technical Interview mostly related to verilog. The Interview should go fine as far as you remember stuff from your projects and especially the verilog commands. Few more, but am not able recall all of them... All the Best! :)
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Could you explain the difference between Blocking and Non Blocking assignments in Verilog?
- What is the difference between Continuous and Procedural Assignments in Verilog?
Broadcom
Validation Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
I got the job through an employee referral. The whole thing took about 10 days. I interviewed at Broadcom back in July 2015. They called me for a first interview over the phone. It was just one interviewer and went for about two hours. They asked about my projects and some logic design stuff. They really dug into my projects to see if I knew them inside out and how my partner and I split the tasks, focusing on what I did. I got the feeling the interviewer cared more about my grades than my answers.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you write a C program to count the number of set bits in a binary integer?
Broadcom Hardware Test / Validation Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Broadcom interview reports.
“What is the 2's complement of a number?”
Read reports →“Implement a Python script to eliminate duplicates from a list and then sort it in ascending order.”
Read reports →“What is the voltage in between two series capacitors A and B connected to Vcc and ground?”
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Read reports →“How do you convert a hexadecimal number to decimal?”
Read report →“In Perl, how would you count the occurrences of repeated words within a given sentence?”
Read report →“Could you write a C program to count the number of set bits in a binary integer?”
Read report →“Can you explain the purpose of a pull-up resistor?”
Read report →“What is the difference between Continuous and Procedural Assignments in Verilog?”
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