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
3.0
Jul 4, 2014

Mixed Bag

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Pros

Exciting technology and opportunities for technical growth while contributing to meaningful solutions that really do change people's lives. Multiple technologies and platforms are embraced to form an ecosystem of services. A great emphasis is placed on agile and technical progress is consistent without overburdening staff resulting in a very good work/life balance.

Cons

The PTO grants could be more generous. Management could be less clique driven and more management oriented. Much of middle level management has risen from the ranks and has no real ability to manage or communicate. Upper management does not seem to notice this and does not appear to offer any means for these inexperienced managers, who often do no managing at all, to improve by any observable means.

5.0
Jul 2, 2014

Family-Friendly Place to Work

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Pros

They almost encourage you to take time off and be with family, and they are really trying to be cutting-edge with technology. Heavy focus on unit testing and best practices, which I wasn't used to.

Cons

The bureaucracy is strong, realistically that's the only problem. Sometimes the communication barrier between the two software development bases gets in the way.

4.0
Jul 2, 2014

Great products, fun culture.

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Pros

Good work / life balance, fun products focused on family history, engaged leadership team. Typical company benefits, great San Francisco modern office and UT office set in the foothills with fantastic scenic views.

Cons

management team can be inconsistent at times. mindset of majority of workforce can be one of "non challenging" and going with status quo which can get frustrating at times. old product platform can create hair pulling challenges around metric instrumentation and tracking

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