Broadcom·Software Engineer

Broadcom Software Engineer interview experience

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Irvine, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience had a rough common thread: the people I spoke with didn’t seem aligned with my resume, and the conversations felt more dismissive than evaluative.

I went in after scheduling, and I ran into awkward questioning because the interviewer apparently hadn’t read my background closely enough. That immediately made it harder to answer honestly, since the questions depended on experience I didn’t have.

Another call felt similarly tense—there was no real small talk, and the interviewer kept cutting me off while sounding impatient when I wasn’t immediately landing something interesting. I also saw that same lack of patience when I explained my reasoning on a LeetCode-style problem; I solved it correctly and still got dismissed because I missed a

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