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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

July 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Overall interview process was mixed and left me with a poor impression on how the company handles the candidate pool. I finished the on-site panel and was ghosted by three recruiters in the company who assured me that they "move quickly" and get feedback to the candidate within 48 hours.

The interviewers themselves were courteous and gave me a good idea of the project, challenges and roadmap ahead for how the company is positioning itself.

The recruiting team was sloppy in handoffs, incommunicado when it came to preparing the candidate for the on-site panel and non existent in passing back feedback after I had to spend 4 hours in the office to meet the team and commute 2 hours over there and back.

Overall I wouldn't think it was worth the experience and I'm assuming they passed on me but I wouldn't know since it's been two weeks of me trying to engage with three recruiters since then.

Questions

The coding question was directly lifted from LeetCode (hard). The system design was business specific with a focus on trying to use on-premise infrastructure (in 2024).

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Illumio Staff Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

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Illumio's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Illumio's Staff Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.

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