Illumina Research Scientist interview experience

In the technical round, I had to work through Java-style problems that were very hands-on—things like printing patterns, manipulating strings, and solving logic checks such as determining even/odd and parsing input. One question required me to access specific characters by working from the end of the string, which threw me for a brief moment because I had to be careful about indexing.

Later steps added another kind of mismatch: I presented as instructed for a technical presentation, but the hiring manager seemed to want a different direction than what the guidelines implied. That disconnect