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      Ancestry

      Engaged Employer

      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

      Ratings by category

      4.6

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      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
      5.0
      Feb 3, 2015

      Been here over a decade and still loving it

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ancestry.com develops products that actually mean something in peoples' lives. Benefits have always been great. Salaries have been at or above competitive rates as far as I have seen. Time off policy has always been generous. Most of my coworkers have been talented, smart, and nice to work with. The technologies we use are interesting and provide ample professional development experience. Great company mission. Great work/life balance is possible with flexible hours and occasional remote work possible. Building Ancestry's products is fun because they are challenging and interesting to build, and contribute something meaningful to the world--not just building widgets at yet another widget factory. It also helps that Ancestry has experienced healthy growth for as long as I've been here--through the recession and all. This is a thriving company with a solid business model. Current top management seems to make great decisions.

      Cons

      From an engineering perspective: Ancestry supports a large suite of products and changes are slow. We sometimes lag behind in implementing newer technologies because most development involves enhancing existing properties, not building brand new ones. This type of work involves overcoming some inertia, which makes change slower than at many smaller/startup companies.

      2.0
      Jan 13, 2015

      Ask any employee how the culture has changed in the last year`

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      When I started at Ancestry.com it was a fantastic place to work. Very competitive salaries, great working conditions, and really brilliant coworkers.

      Cons

      Something changed early on in 2014 and the entire company has become miserable. Salaries aren't as competitive as they used to be, senior management feed each others egos at an astounding rate, employee opinions on decisions large and small are only collected as a formality, and all the smartest people have been jumping ship at a rapid pace.

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