Pros
Great campus, good products, good intern program,
Cons
Most reviews with glowing messages are fake reviews by HR or severely underpaid but highly educated lab and bio PhDs and scientist who are exploited by the pharma and biotech industry due to the sheer supply of qualified employees. Middle management in this company specially i in GQO is either coasting as people manager with Zero real responsibility other than having meaningless 1-1 and quarterly performance review. It is mind numbingly inane to have 1-1 with managers when there is nothing to talk about as you are just numbers in his or her reporting chain for him to get promotion. Everyone knows and recognizes the situation. Performance enablement is a joke at Illumina. Irrespective of performance you will get 3 percent raise +/- 0.2. The dollar amount stays same but the percentage changes. Bonus at senior staff level is 10 percent...let that sink in for a second. And the pay scale is as follows Engineer 1 - 65k Engineer 2- 85k Sr engineer - 105k with 8 percent bonus Staff- 130k Sr staff- 155k Principal- 180k Company makes huge deal about stock grant. It is average at about 30 to 40k at senior and staff level and 50 to 60 k at sr staff level. This is below par compared to other companies and the stock price has gone nowhere over the last five years. Promotion raise is very low too. Prepare to be disappointed.