Ancestry reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(785 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 785 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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785 reviews
2.0
Feb 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Breaks and a 30 minute lunch Good employee benefits (Free movie tickets, ballet, ski, etc) Matching 401k to 6% Weekly reviews with a manager

Cons

I registered a disability when I was first hired there and spoke to HR within a week of my start date. That was the last time I felt they were willing to work with me. The next two months were difficult due to unforeseen circumstances and ended with a termination of my employment for medical reasons. (They claimed hardship) Before that, they nit-picked every email and doctor's note and submitted each part to their legal team, who ultimately decided the accommodations. HR had no power. This also made responses take forever. I was constantly left waiting. HR also made no effort to speak to my supervisors. They were in the dark the whole time and in the end I had to break my legals rights and explain aspects of my condition just so they knew what was going on.

2.0
Feb 1, 2018

Operations manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay for management. Able to work remote and in the office.

Cons

Upper management doesn’t manage. Listen to the employees or one percent who do not work or complain the most. They burn out their best employees. It’s very high school. Senior managers, VPs do not want to deal with conflict so anyone can make up stories about their peers or anyone they feel threatens their position. Based off whose friends usually the A players are let go.

4.0
Oct 10, 2017

Great Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, fun product, good benefits

Cons

Some of the managers are stuck in the past and unwilling to trust their employees enough to allow them to push into the future.

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