Ancestry·Software Engineer

Ancestry Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter screening about my background and experience, and then I moved into a more engineering-heavy round.

Instead of jumping straight into a live coding exchange, I was asked to create a simple project with both frontend and backend components, and I was given a few days to complete it. I could choose my own stack, which helped me map the work to what I’d done before.

After I submitted, I was brought into technical interviews that leaned hard on programming problem-solving. I had two separate coding rounds, and I could pick any programming language. The prompts felt like the kinds of algorithm exercises you’d see on platforms like HackerRank or LeetCode, and the sessions were straightforward in

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