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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

May 3, 2017
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through LinkedIn, the process started with a couple of phone interviews with hiring manager talking mostly about my latest project. Then I received an offline programming challenge to implement on a language of choice (Python in my case). The problem was well described and was not too much difficult to solve, took a few hours to do. After turning it in and one iteration of bug fixing I was invited on-site.

The on-site was quite usual rounds with couple of people at a time from different R&D and QA departments, even from abroad. Only one thing was new for me - I had to start with 45m presentation to the whole team talking about a project mine focusing on technical issues. I was not happy how it went, it was actually good and helping experience. It was also a call with HR person with usual idiotic HR questions "describe yourself from your college point of view..." etc. Ended having launch and talk with the manager where we both peacefully decided not move on because of some lack of match... The overall impression is very good - adequate and friendly manager and a team, well built interview process, nice place.

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Interview Statistics

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Illumina's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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