Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

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Lehi, UTPosted Jul 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment through a coding platform where I had an hour to answer three coding challenges.

Two of them were very easy, and the third felt more ambiguous than the rest. After that, I did a code-pair style interview over the phone with an engineer, where I coded while also talking through my approach, process, and my experience with AWS.

Then I got invited to what amounted to a long “blitz” of interviews—several people over about six or more hours. Not everyone had open roles on their side, which made it harder to ask the kind of pointed questions I wanted about the specific team needs, but the overall vibe felt constructive. At one point, an interviewer told me they wanted me on

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