Ancestry reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(785 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 785 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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785 reviews
1.0
Mar 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You get to meet some great colleagues. The location of the office is nice. You get free lunch once per week.

Cons

Management create a fake and toxic environment in Member Services. The CSAs are treated with very little respect and do not receive enough gratitude for what they do. The company has often filled management roles from within, meaning that some managers have little to no experience of managing people outside the Ancestry walls. Some MS managers that are hired externally have proven to be extremely detrimental to the office culture due to their bullying behaviour. There isn't really any room for proper progression outside of Member Services into the wider company, despite what you are told. Communication between departments is non-existent. The HR department is completely incompetent, which allows for power-tripping managers to get away with a lot. The shifts in Member Services are not flexible at all, despite what people are told when they are hired. This lack of flexibility causes a lot of problems with the work/life balance of employees.

5.0
Jan 29, 2019

Great place to work!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great pay and benefits - Good work / life balance - Leadership is progressive about technology - Make a real difference in customers' lives

Cons

- Coordination / communication between teams is a constant challenge. Meetings are often longer than they probably need to be - Tendency to silo developers into one project for a while - Management tends implement big organizational changes a bit too often

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