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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Diego, California

June 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied for one position in June 2020. Ended up getting interviews for two positions (1 I did not even apply for). Which is nice they actually share your resume around.

HR interviews were easy. I moved on to speak with the hiring managers for both positions. Both managers asked questions similar to what I experienced as a new grad years ago. Heap vs stack, stack vs queue, right join vs left join. Questions that were not relevant to the job and did not match the job description.

At the very first HR interview, I stated I was looking for a fully remote position or at least partial remote coming into office no more than twice a week. HR seemed to think this was possible.

The hiring managers said positions were remote "for now" but would highly recommend full in office when possible at some unknown time in the future. I was not happy with this unknown and lack of WFH availability. I stopped interviewing.

Questions

Queue vs stack, SQL joins, override vs overload, OOP

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Illumina Senior Software Engineer role in San Diego, California.

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Illumina's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Diego, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Illumina's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Diego, California.