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
5.0
Nov 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great friendly place to work. Advancement opportunities available. Great benefits. A lot of extras. The company takes care of you. Great training for the positions.

Cons

Changes within the company. There is not much bad to say about the company. Software programmer needs to make software more stable.

4.0
Nov 2, 2015

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture. Good management. People really love coming to work. The company is always striving to improve their processes to provide a better end user experience.

Cons

Climbing up the career ladder can be a little slow at times. Hiring time can also be slow. For the most part a pretty smooth experience.

4.0
Oct 14, 2015

Good Part-Time Job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This was a really good part-time job while I was in school. Everyone was friendly and the job itself was kind of fun.

Cons

Sometimes it felt that part-time employees were considered "second class citizens" and left out of a lot of company policies.

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