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
5.0
Feb 3, 2015
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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.

3.0
Jan 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work. Awesome product that brings families together. Great family person job.

Cons

I had a VP not from Engineering trying to come in and make Engineering calls. Lots of overstepping. Marketing and UX have the heaviest hand. Sometime Engineers are not respected and told to not bring up topics that make Marketing and Design members upset.

2.0
Jan 13, 2015
Recommend
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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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