Ancestry reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(786 total reviews)
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Howard Hochhauser

80% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Ancestry has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 786 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ancestry employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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786 reviews
1.0
Oct 3, 2021

Massive Attrition

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Pros

People in the backwater parts of the company probably still think everything is fine.

Cons

Extreme mismanagement and secrecy in Product and Technology? People, just stay quiet and everyone will look away from the people leaving at an alarming rate.

2.0
Jul 28, 2019

Diversity is an Asset, not a Cancer

Recommend
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Pros

My co-workers are incredible. I've never worked with a more exceptional, committed group of people at any company. The two stars in my rating is because my co-workers are so exceptional - without that, this would be a one-star recommendation and I would be a former employee, rather than a current one. I hope to be able to change my review in the future.

Cons

There is not one person in management that understands the genealogical community, nor do they have a desire to understand their core user. If you are interested in working here because you love genealogy and family history, look elsewhere. The business outlook is positive because management sacrifices employees and the genealogical community at large at the expense of additional revenue.

2.0
Apr 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good for juniors to learn skills and show passion to a certain point. Good work life balance. Good culture. Unlimited pto.

Cons

But once junior reaches mid level, it's impossible to get better from there because senior and staff title in ancestry doesn't mean anything. You see bunch of bad to mediocre people who call themselves as an Engineer rank up once they stayed there enough time. Then they dont have will and desire to grind their skills. Instead, they like to play politics to show people that they r doing the work. Full of crap. Pay is way below market average. Some managers r very stupid and dont know who is actually doing the job. And pushes wrong person for promo. I'm sick and tired of this so I'm left with better pay

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