Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

New York, NYPosted Sep 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process I went through felt like a broad, multi-step experience rather than a tight engineering-only pipeline.

It involved multiple interviews, and they presented it like I could align with different teams and essentially choose where I’d fit. On the onsite visit, I even received a voucher tied to subscribing for a DNA test, which made the whole day feel more promotional than purely role-focused.

While the interviews were described as a way to talk and get abstract fit, I didn’t feel like I had a real chance to demonstrate technical depth for the kind of job I was seeking. I ended up not liking the format for a software engineering role, largely because the feedback wasn’t clear and the evaluation

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