Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

The questions heavily focused on past experience and Java, and it felt less like a selection process and more like a search for reasons to reject me. I walked away with the distinct impression they expected me to know everything.

In the later technical conversations, the format wasn’t very engaging. The interviewers didn’t really talk through the questions or build dialogue; they basically worked through a printed list of prompts one after another like a rapid fire sequence. That made it harder to show reasoning, because the environment felt more like ticking boxes than exploring how I’d