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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
      4.0
      Feb 20, 2015

      Solid but imperfect place to work

      Senior analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product that really impacts and helps people, lots of interesting data challenges, great work life balance and good people. Growth opportunities are ok, but the company isn't growing quickly right now.

      Cons

      If you're not married or about to be, you might feel out of place. Technology organization is huge and disorganized, making getting things done across teams difficult. The company is not as data driven as it should be.

      5.0
      Feb 3, 2015

      Been here over a decade and still loving it

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ancestry.com develops products that actually mean something in peoples' lives. Benefits have always been great. Salaries have been at or above competitive rates as far as I have seen. Time off policy has always been generous. Most of my coworkers have been talented, smart, and nice to work with. The technologies we use are interesting and provide ample professional development experience. Great company mission. Great work/life balance is possible with flexible hours and occasional remote work possible. Building Ancestry's products is fun because they are challenging and interesting to build, and contribute something meaningful to the world--not just building widgets at yet another widget factory. It also helps that Ancestry has experienced healthy growth for as long as I've been here--through the recession and all. This is a thriving company with a solid business model. Current top management seems to make great decisions.

      Cons

      From an engineering perspective: Ancestry supports a large suite of products and changes are slow. We sometimes lag behind in implementing newer technologies because most development involves enhancing existing properties, not building brand new ones. This type of work involves overcoming some inertia, which makes change slower than at many smaller/startup companies.

      3.0
      Jan 20, 2015

      Great work life balance

      Ios software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great place to work. Awesome product that brings families together. Great family person job.

      Cons

      I had a VP not from Engineering trying to come in and make Engineering calls. Lots of overstepping. Marketing and UX have the heaviest hand. Sometime Engineers are not respected and told to not bring up topics that make Marketing and Design members upset.

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