Excellent benefits and culture undercut by continuous instability - Manager- Content Development Illumina Employee Review

4.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent pay, benefits, on-site amenities, and company culture in general; supportive peers.

Cons

The communications division was gutted in the first half of 2025 in one of the company's practically semiannual sweeping layoffs. From then on out, continuous managerial deck-chair rearranging created a miasma of instability, unclear and poorly reassigned job roles, and rock-bottom morale.

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Cons

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Pros

Good campus, friendly coworkers, had a good mission once upon a time, lots of sports activities, chilled work life balance until rifs devastated the company.

Cons

Bottom barrel salary .... Pathetic to be honest. Extremely low base, poor bonus target that is not often paid and low RSU that company decided to take away from Sr. Manager and lower levels. Stay away from this place if you want a respectable compensation. Lots of cost cutting, ambitious projects staffed by less and less people, most people looking for the exit as morale is in doldrums

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