Illumina Reviews

Pros

- Amazing company mission that everyone rallies around and you can feel proud talking about
- Lots of great coworkers and smart people to learn from
- If you work hard, there's solid career growth and learning opportunities as the company goes through such rapid growth
- Some unique and exciting benefits
- Great facilities
- Lots of fun events to bring people together, such as a dodgeball tournament, company picnic, summer concerts, etc.
- Depending on your team, very flexible work-life balance
- People are incredibly passionate about what they do, and there's a lot of energy at any of the campuses

Advice to Management

Continue to focus on creating a great experience for employees. Continue to listen to customers. Continue to strive to be as transparent as possible.

Pros

An awesome company with great products and which that takes care of its employees. Upper management very young and very diverse.

Advice to Management

Communication between regions is non-existent, there are no efforts to share best practices across teams. As a result, too much effort is wasted re-inventing the wheel, too many good opportunities are lost.

Pros

- Passion for the cause
- Great teams - work together well with everyone!
- Fast paced - lots of investment in growth and change
- Pay and benefits - oustanding!
- Workplace - fantastic location and offices

Pros

Company culture
Great mission
Amazing people

Pros

I applied for a tech job at Illumina being very up-front about the fact I learned quick but only had a little experience, got an offer, and have spent the last three+ years learning new things very quickly indeed and getting a lot out of it.

They're good about paying for training & certification, and encouraging other kinds of professional development. Because the company's growing, I've been learning new things and jumping in the deep end of new projects the whole time I've been here.

My team is telecommuting-friendly, and accommodates flexible working well, though I hear this varies across the company.

Advice to Management

Keep on doing employee surveys and listening to the results.

We could stand to look in more varied efforts towards hiring gender/ethnic diversity for employees in technical roles seems like it's gotten worse in the three years I've been here.

Pros

Projects are meaningful- you feel like you are really contributing to company work. Work is challenging and keeps you constantly thinking, people also seem interested in your opinions and ideas. Great environment, people are hardworking and very nice.

Advice to Management

Better distribution of tasks because workers' responsibilities are not always clear/overlap with others.

Pros

Illumina as a company is changing the world and healthcare as we know it today. What we do is so impactful and meaningful. The company fosters community engagement, work/life balance, volunteering (paid time off and $ match on dontations), and fosters a very open environment that allows for deep collaboration. Culture is very important to fit and thrive at Illumina. One must be for the better good than self serving. Everyone moves fast (physically even) and things change very quickly, thus one must be able to adapt with a positive attitude. Being in engineering that is not always easy for me and can be a struggle. Upward growth is uncapped and encouraged. Benefits are excellent and there are more perks that you can imagine. Everyone that works here is amazingly kind and helpful. If you need a resource (human or tool) the company is fully supportive.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing. You clearly have it right! We are growing, we are global leaders, we are changing history in healthcare. Illumina is an amazing company and I am so happy to be a part of it. Kudos!!

Pros

rapidly revolving company at the very forefornt of technologies that would have great impact on human health.
open and fair relationship with the team leader and workmates. Everybody willing to help when you are in need.

Advice to Management

Continue to invest on R&D to enhance leadership in sequencing, both in itself and upstream and downstream .

Pros

- Great culture
- Great Benefits
- Paid week off for "sumnmer break" during the week of 4th of July
- Work Life Balance
- Facilitates Growth
- Great Events (Concerts, Food Trucks Event, Happy Hours, Free Beer)
- Has a Cafeteria, Gym, Classes (Yoga, Meditation, Spinning), and beautiful landscaping
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Advice to Management

CEO seems to truly care about the environment and our impact to the world.

Pros

Everyone is extremely passionate about developing products that immensely impact the health of everyone in the world
Unlimited vacation time
Employee stock purchase plan is amazing
HQ has so many great amenities
Co-workers are very smart and motivated

Advice to Management

Keep up the great work. The communication with employees is great.