Ancestry reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(145 total reviews)
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Howard Hochhauser

80% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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2.0
Mar 22, 2018

Soaring Profits, Diminishing Culture

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Pros

Ancestry is a unique product that provides meaningful value to millions of passionate customers. Provides excellent benefits package & good pay. Well known brand - you make friends instantly when you tell them you work for Ancestry.

Cons

- Most employees in Utah office/most Exec/VPs are in San Francisco - Desire to expand customer base larger than appetite to maintain and improve exiting product with many problems - Leadership instability and turnover causes fear and anxiety for staff - Lots of discussion about company's financial success, but management overlooks or downplays issues with employee happiness. - Customers losing trust in Ancestry due to quality issues, and inability to address ongoing problems with product (bugs, unreliability, etc)

4.0
Mar 22, 2018
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Pros

-great coworkers -great atmosphere -tons of perks -minimal stress -great mission -great benefits -free workshops -12 week paid maternity leave after working full-time for a year

Cons

-Pay doesn't compare to other companies as well. Ancestry is well behind the general trends for compensation (at least for lower level workers). -It's also hard to tell which positions are where in the food chain a lot of the time, so if you want to move up in the company, it makes it harder to know which jobs to apply for--especially across departments.

1.0
Mar 8, 2018

bad management

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Pros

free catered lunch once per week in SF

Cons

Ancestry's management is horrible and obsessed with catchphrases that they haven't even considered the true meaning of- ex. "speed of innovation". If they knew what speed of innovation was, they wouldn't be years behind 23andMe in the rollout of DNA health products. The company is run as if engineers are just meaningless cogs in the machine which have no input into the products they develop. The company is very management heavy- the ratio of managers to engineers is strangely high. Also the pay is low compared with other companies in the area (SF).

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