Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Jun 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The early stage for me was a recruiter touchpoint, followed by a technical phone interview.

The questions were very simple and I got the sense the interviewer wasn’t very invested, but I still got through the call.

I waited and tried following up after about a week, but I didn’t hear anything back. Eventually another recruiter reached out to confirm I was still interested and said they’d arrange an onsite interview. That onsite still didn’t lead to closure, and after more waiting I received a standard rejection email. Elsewhere along this same kind of process, I also experienced taking an online coding exercise with a two-day window after a telephonic screen, only to be left

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