Illumina reviews

1. Climbing corporate ladder means making 'friends' with right people instead of actual merit or ability to perform job 2. Rampant 'boys club' mentality with very little women at higher management positions or even given opportunity for them (decisions are made behind closed doors) 3. If you don't get promoted you can always apply for a higher position culture vs. actually earning through merit 4. Director level titles are given out like candy to people who don't actually deserve or know how to do the job 5. Some HR personnel should be taken to HR for being biased and partial to a party's side 6. Company is still very wasteful and very 'ungreen' with respect to Manufacturing and packaging given to our customers, we throw so much away in the trash that ends up taking up our precious and limited landfill space 7. Building and campus improvements are not well thought out where we undo or redo what we did and vice versa 8. Constant desk movements are a waste of money and bring inefficiencies based on where you are located, so that you spend part of your day in transit between meetings that are in different buildings and in the end missing part of the meetings because you're late

I've been at Illumina for a few years now. What I've noticed is that in the past year or so, the culture has gotten to be very negative. There are a number of people with anger management issues who continue to antagonize and disrespect employees including myself. HR doesn't really seem to care. We also just found that we won't be getting a bonus. There's also a lot more competition in genomics and a lot of my friends are thinking of leaving because the pay is better elsewhere and because they've reached their ceiling at Illumina. Illumina also does not seem to have a vision for what it wants to be.