Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Draper, UTPosted Sep 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial online assessment through CodePair where I had an hour to work through three coding challenges, I moved on to a phone-based code pairing session with an engineer.

During that call, I wrote additional code while talking through my approach and process, and we also discussed AWS as part of the technical conversation.

A few steps later, I was invited to a long “blitz” round that lasted 6+ hours and involved meeting multiple interviewers. The intent seemed to be for them to understand how I would fit into the organization, not just whether I could solve problems. I ran into the practical issue that not everyone had open spots on the team for the role, which made it harder to ask pointed questions. The overall experience felt like it went very well, and

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