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Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

December 16, 2018
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Process

I was referred to the position. It took a long while to schedule the on-site, HR department was very slow. On-site consists of a presentation that you do in front of the whole team talking about your previous experience. Some extra work required from your side, but it is actually a good way to talk about it just once, not with every interviewer.

The rest of the day is two-on-one interviews. Lunch was more like an interview actually, I didn't have much time to eat. After the on-site interview you may expect a short homework that takes 4-6 hours to complete.

Questions

External sorting, parentheses correctness, Java-specific questions and general CS questions. Nothing hard or domain-specific (at least in my case)

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 22 interview experiences for the Illumina Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

23%
Pass Rate

Illumina's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral32%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Illumina's Software Engineer interview process in United States.