Sadly Declining Fast - people leaving quickly - Senior Engineering Manager Illumina Employee Review

2.0
Nov 25, 2019
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Pros

Great, hard working and clever people trying their best to meet crazy deadlines with limited work processes and tools Good benefits, nice campus and numerous happy hours

Cons

I had to get out. Severe lack of mature work processes for a company this size and that leads to chaos. Company is not mature but has grown to a point now where’s it’s very difficult to catch up. There is no delegation of authority system so nobody takes accountability for decisions and it can take weeks for decisions to be made. Senior leaders (VPs) lack ability to organize teams and have little idea of what it takes to get work done. The few processes that we do have (eg PDP) are not followed but ignored to meet management timelines. This leads to badly designed products that are difficult to Manufacture. Company can’t decide whether it’s a IVD or RUO company. Quality system is broken but nobody at VP level seems to care.

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Stuck with them for 7 years because it was good back then. Comp is good, benefits are good, and if you're on campus its a nice experience. If you find the right team it can be a dream, but the flipside can be awful. Overall they have a lack of direction in what is turning out to be a highly competitive market.

Cons

Corporate bureaucracy and internal politics are strong but could be worse. The benefits were better in the past and all the perks are winding down with time as they tighten the budgets and try hard to pivot away from dying segments

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