I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina in Jul 2021
No offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Illumina (San Diego, CA) in Apr 2016
Interview
Met with four scientists who asked questions about previous lab experience and projects. They discussed potential projects that they were looking for potential candidates to work on and asked questions to see if I would be a good fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you troubleshoot a PCR reaction that shows positive bands in all samples including the negative control?
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.
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
