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      Ancestry

      Engaged Employer

      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

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      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
      2.0
      Feb 4, 2018

      Nice building, but terrible place for an engineer

      Software engineer
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Nice building, huge parking lot, great cafeteria, on-site gym and trainers are amazing, they give you the latest MacBook Pro.

      Cons

      Hiring bar has been very low for forever, which means there are a LOT of mediocre engineers and lots of dead weight. Don't expect to be inspired by your co-workers or tackle hard problems. Your biggest engineering challenge will be navigating through TERRIBLE code bases and no one is interested in making them better because... They just work. Also, lots of core engineering work is being outsourced to India, so there's that. On top of that, there's virtually zero promotion from within, and when someone from within is promoted, his "role" is terminated soon after. All new bosses are in the San Francisco office and it's clear their goal is to eliminate the Lehi office.

      2.0
      Aug 23, 2017

      Stressful!!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - location (next to 4th St. train) - lunch on Mondays - work/life: everyone leaves exactly at 450pm, no emails outside of office

      Cons

      - change change change, re-org, re-org, re-org - leadership team is all new, across the board, now getting rid of some already - product could be amazing but hands ties due to prioritization - where is the passion? many people walk around doing nothing significant - only senior leaders have stock :-( maybe that's why many don't care

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