Illumina·Software Engineer

Illumina Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced Illumina’s process as pretty structured and grounded in how I approached problems.

I started with a HireVue interview that mixed behavioral questions with basic technical questions. The goal felt practical rather than trick-based, and I appreciated that the interviewers weren’t going for something mind-bending.

After the recording round, I moved to a final conversation that focused on my day-to-day problem-solving. It was mostly conversational with the team I would work with and a senior software engineer, and the discussion centered on how I think through workplace problems. There were also basic technical problems woven in, but the engineers made sure they and I were

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