Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up doing a more skills-focused assessment style process where I had to think on my feet and then defend my choices.

First, I handled an earlier screen and then got a small project-like task that I later discussed with the team. The whole setup pushed me to explain why I made certain decisions, not just what the end result was.

When I got to the next stage, I had a final interview delivered over video conference. I was really nervous and it showed—my performance wasn’t as strong as I wanted, especially given that the questions felt kind of odd to me in terms of what they were actually measuring. Even though I could follow the intent behind parts of the work, the way the final questions were framed didn’t

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