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      Ancestry

      Engaged Employer

      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

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      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
      4.0
      Mar 29, 2018

      Internship Overview

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, care about you as a person.

      Cons

      Difficult to switch teams! Some teams are interesting, slow movement in terms of iteration

      2.0
      Mar 26, 2018

      Big changes, none of it good

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Awesome product, great coworkers, good benefits, good work/life balance

      Cons

      Most senior management has been flushed and replaced with new "leaders" who rule by fear and intimidation. Company on paper seems to be doing very well but morale on the ground is terrible. Arbitrary firings and treating the employees who built this company as if they are incompetent has many very talented people looking elsewhere.

      2.0
      Mar 22, 2018

      Soaring Profits, Diminishing Culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ancestry is a unique product that provides meaningful value to millions of passionate customers. Provides excellent benefits package & good pay. Well known brand - you make friends instantly when you tell them you work for Ancestry.

      Cons

      - Most employees in Utah office/most Exec/VPs are in San Francisco - Desire to expand customer base larger than appetite to maintain and improve exiting product with many problems - Leadership instability and turnover causes fear and anxiety for staff - Lots of discussion about company's financial success, but management overlooks or downplays issues with employee happiness. - Customers losing trust in Ancestry due to quality issues, and inability to address ongoing problems with product (bugs, unreliability, etc)

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