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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
      2.0
      Mar 22, 2018

      Soaring Profits, Diminishing Culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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
      Dec 7, 2017

      Times are a-changing

      Software engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product and industry leader in the Family History Space. Industry leader in consumer genomics. Work-life balance is good. Pay is good, benefits are excellent.

      Cons

      Company-wide initiatives clobber the ability for team members to feel involved in the software process. Initiatives are handed down and expected to be delivered. Now. Work-life balance seems to be changing. Huge disconnect between the product and development groups despite being led by the same executive. Many hires (especially management) are coming from outside the company rather than promoting from within.

      3.0
      Mar 14, 2016

      Meh

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nice office. Nice perks. Nice snacks. Free lunches. People beyond nice.

      Cons

      Management is boys club. Product is focused on people of European origins so some racist comments do slip and goes unnoticed by most. Hard to get decisions from management. Lack of focus. Lack of process. Old time customers. Not a technology company though they think they are. People are too nice to provide real feedback.

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