Illumina Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Benefits are very good and mgmt in the commercial org always looking for ways to improve the employee experience and support employees. leadership is personable and accessible. You are encouraged to take initiative and challenge ideas. ILMN takes diversity and inclusion seriously and have improved hiring and recruiting practices. (quote from a direct report, "my old company would have never addressed diversity and inclusion as head on, I was shocked and impressed"

Cons

- continued struggles with CRM and processes, may need to start from scratch with some to maximize success - still a bit of a delta internal vs. field in terms of advancement cadence - will be increasingly difficult to balance the great culture, employee focus and work/life balance with increasing revenue, expense and compliance expectations of a top tier med device manufacturer -

Pros

- The campus is beautiful - Great teammates, great managers who care about their teams - Lots of smart people - It seems easy to move up in this company provided you show potential and demonstrate your worth

Cons

- Employees work too much - poor work-life balance - Illumina seriously underpays its technical employees, especially in Software Engineering. If you look at any salary website such as Glassdoor or levels.fyi, you will immediately see that Illumina pays often about 50% of what other companies are offering in the same geographic location. It is difficult to negotiate a better compensation package to match the market. The stock grants are much smaller than you can get anywhere else - seriously, my other offers gave 15-20x the amount of stock I received in my Illumina offer. I'm sure that the below-market compensation is the reason why during company meetings employees always point out how large numbers of people are leaving the company and joining competitors for better compensation. Illumina offers bottom-of-the-barrel compensation yet expects to recruit and retain top-level talent.

Pros

Great benefits- inexpensive healthcare, 401k matching, ESPP, yearly equity grant, health and wellness stipend, onsite gym, great work life balance, great company culture, intramural leagues, open minded environment Chance to work on incredible products that actually help people in a market that's only set to grow

Cons

Can still feel like a start up sometimes Constant "reorganizing" which can disrupt workflows and disband established teams

Pros

Perseverance. Ability to achieve the impossible!

Cons

No work life balance . Bad organization structure within GQO

Pros

Good benefits. FTO, 401k, health, espp, dental, vision.

Cons

No work life balance. Unreasonable expectation with not enough budget or resources. Lots of talk about DEI but no real plan to grow and retain internal leaders.