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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

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      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
      Sep 9, 2024

      Amazing

      Research manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      What a great company that treats its employees good.

      Cons

      They have gone ahead and laid a lot off in the last years.

      4.0
      Sep 8, 2024

      Great Place to Learn with Conservative Management

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Engineers continuously learn and adopt new technologies (Terraform and Fargate as some examples) - Project management is conservative, so there are few development crunches (outside new products) - Teams are collaborative in sharing new learnings, modules, and libraries to avoid duplicating work

      Cons

      - Product development is very conservative/risk-averse (several new products have been axed shortly after release) - Mediocre compensation often leads to turnover of high-performing engineers and managers - Newly promoted or interim managers receive little training before being asked to manage 10 - 20 individuals, leading to poor results

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