I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Brocade (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2015
Interview
Contacted by a HR on LinkedIn. The turn-around was very quick. The onsite interview consisted of 6 rounds - 4 technical and 2 technical/behavioral. Overall the experience was great and very professional. There was a shutdown for 4th of July hence some delay in the decision. Did not have to negotiate since they beat my expectations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prepare thoroughly on networking concepts and a few data-structures.
Some questions:
1. Need of function prototypes in C
2. Static vs global variable
3. Pattern matching in a file
4. How breakpoints work in GDB
5. DMA working for receiving and transmitting the packet onto the port
6. Sorting technique for a huge dataset in RAM
7. How do you debug if CDP packets is lost between IP phone and Switch.
8. Double free detection in C, what if the freed memory is allocated by another function.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Brocade (Bengaluru) in Nov 2017
Interview
C programming (level medium), L2 and L3 Protocols, Broadcom Data Plane(in depth)
A telephonic interview was done at first. On face to face interview, there was coding test. Had to write two programs on data structure. All interviewers covers programming, data structures and Broadcom Data Plane in details
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Every interviewer asked about Broadcom Data Plane in Depth
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Brocade (Bengaluru)
Interview
Coding round - they give the laptop. this is timebound round
2 F2F round
1 design based F2F round
1 Managerial round
Some of the questions were really hard. Overall a good experience. HR and people were kind and friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
5 Data structure JAVA programs to be completed in 60 minutes including JUNIT
Core JAVA and Spring questions
Questions on Data structures
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Brocade (Bengaluru) in Nov 2015
Interview
1st round was written. It included aptitude, technical and coding questions. Written test was difficult.
next were face to face interviews. The panel was interested in the work done in the previous company and the issues faced there. I was tested on programming skills along with the knowledge of protocols. It was a nice experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. HTTP ptotocol
2. TCP/IP protocol
3. Find number of nodes of a tree
4. questions on the projects in previous company