Illumio·Software Engineer

Illumio Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter outreach led to a sequence that included a recruiter interview and then a take-home coding assessment.

After that, I met with a senior engineer. The whole thing moved in roughly a couple of weeks mainly because they were reviewing the take-home during a holiday period, so the timing itself wasn’t what bothered me.

What felt off was how the process was handled once I got on the call. The recruiting staff told me the first interview would be about discussing the assessment, but the engineer ended up asking technical questions on a lot of random topics. There wasn’t much time left at the end to even talk about the assessment unless I brought it up.

Worse, it was obvious the interviewer hadn’t

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