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      Illumina reviews

      3.3

      46% would recommend to a friend

      (2,567 total reviews)
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      Jacob Thaysen

      53% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      Illumina has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,567 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Illumina employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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      3K reviews
      2.0
      Feb 5, 2011

      This company eats its young

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Exciting products. Very cutting edge technology. Growth of the company within the last few years.

      Cons

      Lack of infrastructure. Middle management is the poorest I've ever worked with. The organization is top heavy. Feels like organizations and managers assigned are just to experiment. Horrible prospects for advancing and no growth opportunities within many groups. Expect employees to work until they burnout.

      2.0
      Jan 30, 2011

      Profit company but top management is not willing to spend money.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good technology with promise future - DNA sequencing - top of the market in bio - technology.

      Cons

      The working environment is very bad. Employ ee has to working long hours and very stressful. Schedule is very tight. They do not hire regular enployees and try to squeeze the temporary workkers.

      3.0
      Dec 6, 2010

      Good people, questionable job satisfaction

      Technician
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible Hours (you can come in whenever you want as long as you get 40-50 hrs a week) As many overtime hours as you can stand to do Genuinely good hearted, down to earth people who work here Diverse employee group (both racially and age-wise) Good in-house cafe Higher-ups with occasionally buy us lunch

      Cons

      3/4 of the workforce are "temps," which allows the company to hire us for 40-50 hours a week without benefits, so no paid time off, no vacation, no sick days Typical corporate culture (i.e. culture-less workplace) Production process an environmental disaster (tons of trash with minimal recycling program) Job involves starting at a computer screen about 90% of the time Job nature is pretty boring - assembly line type atmosphere with 0 creativity involved Mostly a solo job - you work in solitude most of the time Poor gender ratio is bad for everyone! (10 to 1 guy to girl ratio in my department)

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