Illumio·Software Engineer

Illumio Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Sunnyvale, CAPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process began with a take-home online assessment, and it took more than a month to hear back about the result.

When I finally got confirmation, I moved to a technical screen with a senior staff engineer from a different team. I was told that this round would go over the take-home, but instead it turned into a verbal, generic computer science style conversation that didn’t really connect to my background.

The interviewer was rude and made the experience uncomfortable. He didn’t introduce himself, and he was dismissive when I asked clarifying questions or asked him to repeat. At one point he suggested I couldn’t hear him when I asked for clarification again, and he also made remarks about my

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