Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Received an email to schedule a one-hour interview, and it ended up being split evenly between two interviewers.

Both of them asked about my projects and previous work experience, and I felt like my background came through clearly. The second interviewer gave me extremely good feedback, which made me feel like I had a real chance.

A couple of weeks later, I received a rejection email saying they had several qualified candidates and wouldn’t move forward. The timeline wasn’t long, but the outcome still stung—especially because the feedback during the interview had been so positive. The reflection I carried afterward was that the process still had a lot of uncertainty behind the scenes, even when the

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