Illumina reviews

I felt lucky and excited when I first received my offer to work here and it is unfortunate that my experience has been less than ideal and the cons outweigh the positives. INSTABILITY: I have only been here about 2 years and from from day one, I have seen multiple people have their positions eliminated from one day to the next. Recently, myself included. The severance package offered is not the greatest and rather than trying to retain you and helping you to find other internal positions, the company pairs you with an external career assistance recruiter that does very little to help you find a new position externally. UNPROFESSIONAL: For a company that "cares" about their employees, the way that lay offs are handled is in my opinion, completely unprofessional. There is no transparency or warnings for employees. My entire department was on the edge for months wondering when and who was going to be let go after rumors started circulating. Whenever clarification or reassurance was needed, directors and vps would provide vague answers like "all I can say is changes are coming". Not exactly the kind of thing you want to hear when you are being pushed even further to extend your resources and take on more work. It is demotivating and unnecessary stress. The actual layoff itself was also unprofessional and confusing. I received a meeting invite with no subject. The meeting lasted a total of 5 minutes. I was handed a packet, told to read it through on my own, and that it was optional from that point forward for me to come into the office and continue to work, yet I was told to turn in my badge and computer after the meeting and gather my things from my desk. I was not allowed to speak to anyone and someone would escort me out. It was a bit embarrassing and traumatic since it seemed like more of a firing than a lay-off. Even more infuriating was that they timed it right before performance evaluations and raises hit. I was encouraged to continue to apply internally and I was lucky to land an interview for a similar position within my ideal department. During the entire process, the recruiter made me feel like I was a top candidate and made it sound like I was a shoe-in for hire. The day before my final interview I received an offer from a different org and tried to do right by being transparent with the illumina recruiter. I gave them a head's up and asked about the details of my candidacy and the length of the process. In a very unprofessional manner, my third interview was cancelled 2 hours before and I was told they were going with a candidate with additional experience and they wanted to let me continue the interview since nothing was set in stone. It was very disheartening news to hear and made me feel like my time was being wasted and I was only given the interviews because of the lay-off situation I was in. NO ALIGNMENT AND TRANSPARENCY BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS: Each department kinda roams feral and does what they want without researching the impact and notifying other departments causing more work and stress for others. Additionally to this, job roles are not well defined or not grouped correctly so compliance gaps in training are created or irrelevant training is being inappropriately assigned. Unvalidated systems are feeding data into validated systems and later on discoveries are made that certain pieces of data are no longer in use, have been change, or were never populated upstream and causes more cleanup efforts No ownership for tackling ever increasing issues. Teams pass the buck between departments. LIMITED RESOURCES Many departments are understaffed forcing others to take on more work or share the workload with other understaffed departments. HIRING CONSULTING FIRMS Consulting firms constantly come in, set up systems or provide content, do their damage, then dip out, leaving FTEs to clean up the mess and adding to their workloads FOOD POISOINING Everyday there is a new post about someone getting sick from the ICafe food, or catering, or something random like finding plastic in the sandwiches. BATHROOM/BREAKROOM FACILITIES Are disgusting. For as fancy as the buildings look on the outside, you'd be surprised at how disgusting the facilities are on the inside. Every 3 days the toilets back up and overfill leaving a constant lingering stench, wet toilets and floors. The breakrooms also have an issue with brown water on occasion and sinks backing up. Some people also disrespect and disregard the cleaning and maintenance staff and create more work for them by failing to pick up after themselves if they make a mess. They look down upon them and it's sad to see. OPEN WORK SPACES Creates for noisey and nosey environments and lack of privacy. GROWTH The company has been expanding its lab spaces and thus restricting more and more buildings and floors and limiting already scarce meeting rooms. Good luck trying to book anything at HQB1. More growth also opens the question about where are the displaced departments going to be housed? I3 is at capacity in terms of parking and many now have to park at HQ and shuttle over which makes it slightly more inconvenient.