Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The tone of my interview experience felt more upbeat and coordinated than a lot of the other journeys I’d seen.

After applying through their website, I heard back after a few weeks to schedule a phone interview. The call was light on written coding but still technical: they asked about the programming languages I claimed to know and how they worked under the hood, and it also covered the basics of my background.

Next came an onsite in San Francisco. I remember showing up to a casual, laid-back environment with free food and lots of space, and then doing an hour-long coding challenge. After that, I went through multiple conversations with different team leads where we covered my experience and then

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