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private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
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Apr 16th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Ancestry
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Software Engineering Manager
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Lehi, UT
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Great place if you can put up with the woke.
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Very talented and experienced engineers and managers. A fare amount of freedom on how to build the product.
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Owned by BlackStone, with it's woke policies. Seems to be on a constant cycle of misplaced product decisions and employee layouts. Struggles to keep their core customers happy while the blindly pursue new market segments that never seem to materialize.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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3.0
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4.0
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4.0
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3.0
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1.0
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243532
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Open
|
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Open
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Apr 20th, 2024 11:13PM
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Apr 20th, 2024 11:13PM
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Ancestry
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private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
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Apr 12th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Ancestry
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Software Engineer
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Lehi, UT
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Good for work-life balance
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Good place to live and work.
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Not technically as interesting work as other places.
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0.0
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4.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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243532
|
Open
|
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0.0
|
[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Open
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Apr 17th, 2024 08:36PM
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Apr 17th, 2024 08:36PM
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Ancestry
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private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 11th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Ancestry
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Intern
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|
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Good
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They’re a good company. Good culture.
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Nothing was bad. Very good.
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|
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0.0
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4.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
|
0.0
|
[]
|
INTERN
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No
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No
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0.0
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Open
|
|
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Apr 17th, 2024 08:36PM
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Apr 17th, 2024 08:36PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
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Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
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Disappointing treatment
|
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Flexible work/life balance with remote working
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Blatant racism, inappropriate behaviour from managers and bullying
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-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
|
|
|
|
0.0
|
2.0
|
3.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
0.0
|
1.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
Treat employees whatever role or employment type with respect.
|
0.0
|
[]
|
CONTRACT
|
No
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No
|
|
1.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
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Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
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private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
Associate Legal Counsel
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San Francisco, CA
|
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5 out of 5 People
|
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The people at Ancestry are truly the best. Kind, helpful, and collaborative. Also, Ancestry offers fully remote opportunities.
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Not a lot of cons - salary is decent/average compared to market rate.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
No
|
|
0.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
CRM Analyst
|
Lehi, UT
|
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Changing Priorities, Burnout, people take job way too seriously
|
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- Remote work
- Decent benefits and fair compensation
- Some colleagues are very nice
|
Ancestry has had like 3 layoffs in the past 4 years while having teams that have been understaffed and are now even more understaffed picking up the pieces. It is entirely normal for many teams to have incredibly annoying managers that slack you after 5pm and have an "emergency mode" task every.other.day because it's a "senior leadership request!!!" that forces us to work past 5, sometimes past 9, it is incredibly exploitative and infuriating, from both senior leadership and from managers. Managers will then turn around and say how thankful they are for you working past 5, and pretend to show empathy...except the cycle repeats week after week after week.
Management's priorities seem to contradict each other every year when there's inevitably a new plan (basically we are at the whim of Blackstone, who owns us and is a big reason for the annual layoffs) and a new emergency priority (!).
While coworkers are mostly nice people there's definitely a lack of diversity and also a lot of people who take their jobs way too seriously. You really wonder if they care to live their lives instead of being a cog in a machine for a corporate job that isn't that meaningful.
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
DISAPPROVE
|
0.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
2.0
|
4.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
Stop asking managers to come up with a deck in the span of a few days or even 24 hours which overworks lower level workers to the bone!
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
6.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
|
https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
Disappointing treatment
|
|
Flexible work/life balance with remote working
|
Blatant racism, inappropriate behaviour from managers and bullying
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
|
|
|
|
0.0
|
2.0
|
3.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
0.0
|
1.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
Treat employees whatever role or employment type with respect.
|
0.0
|
[]
|
CONTRACT
|
No
|
No
|
|
1.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
|
https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
Associate Legal Counsel
|
San Francisco, CA
|
|
5 out of 5 People
|
|
The people at Ancestry are truly the best. Kind, helpful, and collaborative. Also, Ancestry offers fully remote opportunities.
|
Not a lot of cons - salary is decent/average compared to market rate.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
No
|
|
0.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
|
https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 4th, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
CRM Analyst
|
Lehi, UT
|
|
Changing Priorities, Burnout, people take job way too seriously
|
|
- Remote work
- Decent benefits and fair compensation
- Some colleagues are very nice
|
Ancestry has had like 3 layoffs in the past 4 years while having teams that have been understaffed and are now even more understaffed picking up the pieces. It is entirely normal for many teams to have incredibly annoying managers that slack you after 5pm and have an "emergency mode" task every.other.day because it's a "senior leadership request!!!" that forces us to work past 5, sometimes past 9, it is incredibly exploitative and infuriating, from both senior leadership and from managers. Managers will then turn around and say how thankful they are for you working past 5, and pretend to show empathy...except the cycle repeats week after week after week.
Management's priorities seem to contradict each other every year when there's inevitably a new plan (basically we are at the whim of Blackstone, who owns us and is a big reason for the annual layoffs) and a new emergency priority (!).
While coworkers are mostly nice people there's definitely a lack of diversity and also a lot of people who take their jobs way too seriously. You really wonder if they care to live their lives instead of being a cog in a machine for a corporate job that isn't that meaningful.
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
DISAPPROVE
|
0.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
2.0
|
4.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
Stop asking managers to come up with a deck in the span of a few days or even 24 hours which overworks lower level workers to the bone!
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
6.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Apr 7th, 2024 08:32PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|
|
private:ancestry
|
https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=243532
|
Apr 2nd, 2024 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
Ancestry
|
UX Designer
|
|
|
Ancestry ins't for everyone
|
|
- Decent work/life balance depending on the team
- Good health insurance
- A unique and challenging product to work on
- Passionate customers
|
- Racism and ageism across ICs and management
- No clear product vision for today or the future
- Some teams are bloated, while other teams have limited staffing and resources
- Managers are immature (petty) and micromanage your work
- Leadership says they value diversity but consistently deprioritize work to benefit non-white people because it's "not profitable"
- The company prioritized improving diversity hiring to turn around and lay off women and Black and brown folks
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
|
-1.0
|
DISAPPROVE
|
0.0
|
2.0
|
3.0
|
2.0
|
2.0
|
3.0
|
1.0
|
1.0
|
243532
|
Open
|
Take personal responsibility for company performance instead of punishing high performers executing your vision while rewarding yourselves with promotions.
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
No
|
|
2.0
|
Open
|
|
|
Apr 3rd, 2024 03:10PM
|
Apr 3rd, 2024 03:10PM
|
Ancestry
|
|
|