Ancestry Full Stack Engineer interview experience

One round came with a HackerRank-style coding problem; it was on the easier-to-medium side, and I solved it, but they ultimately weren’t moving forward because they wanted someone with more front-end experience.

In another process, I had an hour interview scheduled via email with two interviewers, each taking half the time. That one was very project-and-experience oriented: they asked about what I’d worked on and what my previous roles looked like. I remember getting particularly strong feedback during the second interview, which made the later rejection email feel jarring—two weeks later