Ancestry·Frontend Engineer

Ancestry Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with HR reaching out through a professional network.

The first conversation was friendly and covered the company broadly, even if the recruiter didn’t know much about the specific role. After that, I moved into a sequence that felt like quick pivots from one screen to the next.

I was given an assignment that involved turning a design into a working page. I was told it wouldn’t take more than an hour, but the PSD had hidden layers and I had to spend time extracting assets before I could build it. A week later I had a phone screen with engineering managers where we talked through my background and I also got some CSS/JavaScript questions. At the

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