It was like watching a slow-motion midlife crisis unfold, but on a company-wide scale. - Manager, Engineering Illumina Employee Review

4.0
10 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful campus Fairly convenient and decent iCafe, deli, coffee shops, etc. That in and of itself is pretty amazing. You can't beat the location. Some of the smartest people in the world work there.

Cons

Upper management is a collection of sellouts and incompetents - not discriminatory; a professional assessment. Everyone vies for power like it's game of thrones or something; it's pathetic. HR department doesn't take complaints seriously and cooperates with upper management to alienate people who bring up serious issues like harassment and bullying. Some of the outright worst people in the world "work" there.

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5.0
19 Oct 2025
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Pros

great benefits, good working culture

Cons

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1.0
21 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good campus, friendly coworkers, had a good mission once upon a time, lots of sports activities, chilled work life balance until rifs devastated the company.

Cons

Bottom barrel salary .... Pathetic to be honest. Extremely low base, poor bonus target that is not often paid and low RSU that company decided to take away from Sr. Manager and lower levels. Stay away from this place if you want a respectable compensation. Lots of cost cutting, ambitious projects staffed by less and less people, most people looking for the exit as morale is in doldrums

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