Ancestry Software Developer reviews

4.2

63% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)
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Howard Hochhauser

100% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Ancestry with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Ancestry is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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52 reviews
2.0
Apr 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good for juniors to learn skills and show passion to a certain point. Good work life balance. Good culture. Unlimited pto.

Cons

But once junior reaches mid level, it's impossible to get better from there because senior and staff title in ancestry doesn't mean anything. You see bunch of bad to mediocre people who call themselves as an Engineer rank up once they stayed there enough time. Then they dont have will and desire to grind their skills. Instead, they like to play politics to show people that they r doing the work. Full of crap. Pay is way below market average. Some managers r very stupid and dont know who is actually doing the job. And pushes wrong person for promo. I'm sick and tired of this so I'm left with better pay

5.0
Jan 29, 2019

Great place to work!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great pay and benefits - Good work / life balance - Leadership is progressive about technology - Make a real difference in customers' lives

Cons

- Coordination / communication between teams is a constant challenge. Meetings are often longer than they probably need to be - Tendency to silo developers into one project for a while - Management tends implement big organizational changes a bit too often

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