I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Illumina (San Diego, CA) in May 2018
Interview
There were three phases. HR Interview, self performed video recording, followed by several hours on site. Two interviewers per segment, 4 or 5 segments. They keep the first two phases on file, and only had to redo the on-site interview during a change in the job application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you handle working on a project for a year, getting it to 90% completion, then being reassigned due to deprioritization
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina in Jul 2021
Interview
One way video interview, followed by a short HR call, followed by a 4 hour long stakeholder interview over Teams. Fairly standard/typical interview questions. The video interview was more focused on Illumina themselves.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Illumina (San Diego, CA) in Aug 2018
Interview
In the first step, I completed an application. A week later, they had an online interview using HireVue. After another week, I heard back that I was having an in-person interview; it took 3 weeks to schedule this as the HR person had some personal things come up. During the in-person interview, I met with 7 members of the potential team. It took them 3 weeks to respond about my status.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Online questions included: What is your background? Why interested in the company? Describe your experience with problem solving.
In person included questions similar to the online questions and also: What do you know about our instruments? Why hire you? There were a few hypothetical scenarios and how I'd respond.
