Ancestry Full Stack Engineer interview experience

If I cleared that, they handled travel logistics for an onsite interview.

Onsite, I talked with four different people, with each conversation running about 45 minutes. The technical areas came up directly: React work, whiteboarding, database and backend topics, and data structures. There was also a separate session that felt more like an attitude or culture conversation.

I really liked the people and the vibe, but I ultimately didn’t pass the onsite. I felt the missing piece was backend and database depth, even though the questions didn’t seem impossibly hard if I had had more experience in