I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2010
Interview
I applied online on their website's career section on 10/6/10 and received a phone call from their on-site recruiter 2 weeks later. The recruiter asked standard questions about my experience, why I wanted to work for this company and what did I know about it, and why I wanted to leave current position. I received a call from their HR dept a week later to set up a phone screen interview with the hiring manager. The phone interview went fairly well; essentially a repeat of the questions asked by the recruiter, but it flowed nicely and I was able to discuss in more detail my experience and what I can bring to the position. The following week the HR dept contacted me to schedule an interview for the week after. The interview was scheduled with 10 different people, each for a half hour. Each interviewer allowed me to talk about my background and where the company is and what needs to be done moving forward. There were not any behavior-type questions but the interviews tended to naturally turn to experiences where I was able to discuss my strengths in resolving difficult situations and the positive outcomes. The people were friendly and easy to talk to.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk me through the process of bringing a concept from design to production
There were several interviews with team members. All the questions were standard behavioral and mindset-related questions that weren’t too difficult to answer. Role was fleshed out more thoroughly in the interviews
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Illumina (Cambridge, England)
Interview
teams call followed by face to face with a presentation and meeting the team. it was not too technical process to follow and easy very welcoming and process was standard
The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Illumina (Eindhoven) in Aug 2022
Interview
The interview process took literally 2 month, we me having to follow-up each time. There were 6 interviews, all with people with important positions, and took a lot of my time and their own time. After 3 weeks not hearing a single word, I received a call that there is a hiring freeze! How on earth is it possible that a huge business doesn’t know they have a hiring freeze and has to wait 3 weeks to tell me this? This is absurd and a big lie and unfair to me dedicating this much time, if you were not happy with me, you could already reject my application after first interview.