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
4.0
Nov 20, 2015

Depends on your group & what you make of it

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Pros

Great culture (a lot of people end up being friends outside work), willingness to grow employees in new areas if openings exist, appetite for testing ideas, showing stable growth, reasonable goals and performance expectations, the work/life balance is more of a life/work balance, pockets of good leadership, general perception of competence and trust in leadership

Cons

Senior management is too tactical and involved, often politics trump merit, pay was not very competitive, cross-office cultures clash, management of projects can be described as pure chaos, siloed goals cause a lot of short sided decisions, accountability is lacking, transparency is lacking, some teams are completely unmotivated to perform/innovate, no equity or incentives to stay result in a lot of turnover and turbulence

3.0
Nov 10, 2015

Operations

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Pros

Potential in their business model

Cons

If you don't have a degree from Harvard, Yale, or Stanford, don't bother

3.0
Nov 6, 2015

Customer Solutions Representative

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Pros

It was a good product and everyone was very nice in the office. They did a great job of training and making sure that you knew what was going on with the products.

Cons

There are all kinds of unnecessary quotas that aren't too terribly hard to hit, but they are pointless. People that have worked there for a long time are asked to do things so differently that it makes it difficult for them to want to stay.

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