Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Provo, UTPosted Dec 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

They started me with a take-home test that was time boxed for about two hours.

I completed it and was able to get responses to questions while I was working, but once I submitted the work, the communication disappeared.

I followed up with HR and the manager multiple times and didn’t hear anything. After a few weeks, the situation flipped suddenly: I told them I had an offer, and right away both HR and the manager asked me to schedule a Skype conversation with several people the same day or the next day. They also promised a weekend follow-up call about further rounds that never happened.

What surprised me was that there were no real programming questions—everything

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