Ancestry Software Developer reviews

-worst management I have seen in my 15 year career -looks like management team is here to make quick money. Only 1/3 “smart employees” get stock options

- Benefits and pay slightly lower than average - Quality of the code is under constant neglect. Product deadlines and marketing campaigns will always take priority over quality - Huge meetings culture. 2-4 hours a day for an individual contributor, and get worse as you grow in ranks. Team leads are so booked with meetings, many leads don't end up coding at all - Everyone avoids any type of a conflict, if you do encounter a non-compromising person on the project, there is little support for negotiating between parties - Dev teams' opinion of direction of project is rarely taken into account - Stock options is a privilege of only Director level and above - In 2018, Senior Team laid off around 10% of engineers without consulting managers and with no explanation whatsoever. Only mentioned it wasn't financial or performance reasons, but keep hiring for the same positions - Annual re-org and re-invent of scrum with shuffling teams and people around throws off team cohesion