Illumina Reviews

Pros

Everyone is incredibly friendly, smart, and approachable
Co-workers and managers really care about your well-being
Managers care about your career aspirations and recognize company goals is to create new innovative technology so they encourage new ideas and increased responsibility
Hard work is recognized (within teams and company wide)
It's clear CEO and Board members value their employees between programs offered, policies implemented, as well as interviews they give
Company values are not just posted on the walls they are talked about on a daily basis and kept in mind with every project
Lots of opportunities to branch out and meet other people in the company with other departments
Lots of amenities
Fast paced and meaningful work

Pros

- mission of the company is inspiring and impactful
- the people are amazing and make it a great place to work
- fast paced and very collaborative
- fast growing company with a good amount of upward mobility

Pros

This an amazing place for both professional and personal growth.

Pros

Good technology, good people, strong R&D group

Pros

Lots of vacation time, great work-life balance, on-site gym, great benefits overall. In my 10+ year career, it's really the first company where I felt senior management really does care about employees. Several VPs I've seen, including mine, sit at a cubicle just like everyone else (albeit they are nicer, they're still cubes and they sit right by everyone else). The CEO himself seems like he really cares about the people that work there.

The company is constantly finding ways to grow morale and the community feeling, such as encouraging clubs to form, providing time off each year to volunteer, matching donations to charities, scheduling food trucks to come on campus every day, fitness center with trainers that will provide you workout plans, farmer's markets on campus, concerts, movie nights, etc. Honestly, I've never worked with so many happy people and it's clear the company encourages a work-life balance. There are several occasions or holidays where people bring their kids on campus to participate in events (like the Halloween maze!).

The company's mission to improve human health is real and a lot of people I've worked with genuinely believe in it and are motivated by it. It made me a believer! The management team I work under is smart, demanding but fair, and truly care about morale.

Advice to Management

Keep it up! Every month there's news of some new event, perk or benefit to working here and I know it doesn't happen by magic. There are people constantly working to make the people who work here happy and it really shows.

Maybe a more generous sick day policy?

Pros

high payrate . friendly environment . people are nice and job is too easy for everyone. more working hours . good experience working in this awesome company .

Advice to Management

management is great.

Pros

The company is truly focused around it's mission statement. Rewarding job being part of something world changing. The top level leadership stays focused on creating real products and real value in the world.

Pros

Collaborative environments
Company perks (e.g concerts, social events on premise, great time off)
Company mission helps save lives
Engineering team is loyal
Creating scalable systems

Advice to Management

Increase your knowledge by getting involved and doing the work, and this will give you valuable experience. Stop focusing on office politics and start contributing to the bottom line.

Pros

Illumina's going to change the world, and to an extent it already is. It's an amazing company to work for, competitive pay, beautiful campus, lots of events and activities to keep you engaged and motivated. It has very comprehensive and thorough new employee onboarding programs so it was a breeze to go through. People in general are very smart and nice to work with.

Advice to Management

Hire the right managers. People quit their managers, not the job. And when you're Illumina, the manager has to be EXTRA terrible for someone to quit. And it happened... I feel bad for everyone else that has to stay on that team.

Pros

Convenient HQ location in San Diego. Innovative and intelligent products, R&D, and science. Many social events and opportunities to network within the organization if you choose to participate in Yammer groups, fitness contests, and other programs that are available to employees outside of day-to-day functions.

Advice to Management

Invest in your people and provide career opportunities, and additional headcount and funding within the quality organization.
Shift day-to-day activities for managers from 40 hrs of meetings/weekly to execution of aligned strategies and development of employees and teams.
Provide quality management / leadership training and opportunities, evaluate managers to enable improvement and create effective, efficient, and unbiased quality leaders.