Ancestry reviews

- Slightly inbred culture that is passive aggressive towards each other and especially to outsiders - Inability to solve conflict in ways that are both direct and healthy - Less of a meritocracy than you'd expect of a company of this size...lots of burned-out people from the good-old-days that appear to have "tenure" - The sale of the company (and the corresponding conversion of equity from paper equity to real equity) is the primary focus of management. It's great if that objective happens to overlap with what customers want, but it's not required from their perspective - sale value rules the day. - A lot of fat in the company (although getting better). People put in about 70% of the effort that you'd expect. Working extra or overtime is almost unheard of and I doubt most people could even do it if asked. - Many nonconstructive complainers in the company and management that sometimes enables and panders to that type of behavior - Occasionally inexperienced middle managers who try to reinvent solutions to problems that have been solved long ago...plenty of experimentation with esoteric org structures and processes, for example being treated as "innovation" - An important fraction of the technical staff openly opposes leaning new technology - the first time I've ever observed this - Somewhat boring environment, library-quiet with less collaboration than you might be used to. - You can easily feel like you are getting weaker instead of stronger. - Legal and HR departments lean towards being ineffective and possibly even vindictive

-Majority of executives and upper management are located in Provo. -SF salaries are not competitive to the market because HR and upper management use Utah as a gauge of what salaries should be. -Not enough investment in the technology stack and infrastructure. -A larger company that has a number of people that don't contribute anything meaningful but still remain employed and unmotivated.