I can no longer recognize the company I work for - Anonymous employee Ancestry Employee Review

At the moment, the company has no direction. When the new leadership came on, things went downhill. The culture changed from the family like to very corporate. They speak of innovation but Ancestry has been very stale. Nothing new or exciting to offer to our customers. That's fine but it forces a lot of good engineers to leave. Ancestry also had this weird layoff (about 40 engineers and directors were let go). The choices were very arbitrary (they had to find that 5% to lay off) and some very good people were forced out. Engineering leadership is lacking. They repeat the same old meaningless slogans that nobody buys. In fact, everything that is wrong with Ancestry right now, is due to the new leadership's failures. The leadership does not understand the core values of this company and the customers it serves. If they move most of Ancestry to San Francisco, the company will lose whatever is left of its soul and it will not be successful.