Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round was a typical recruiter call, followed by a one-hour call with three interviewers.

The early questions started behavioral and then shifted into a HackerRank coding problem described as a medium LeetCode-style task about a cache. The tone was surprisingly fast: I began coding, and within about five minutes they asked me to run the program.

I wasn’t finished yet, so the run didn’t produce what they expected. After I explained that I hadn’t completed the full solution, they clarified they were mostly checking whether I could code at all, and then they moved on. The interview continued with JavaScript questions, and I told them I didn’t use JavaScript day to day, which made it

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