Ancestry·Frontend Engineer

Ancestry Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone screening where they asked basic Java questions, followed by an online coding exercise with a time limit.

In my experience, the online portion included several questions, and then I was called in to an onsite a couple of weeks later.

At the onsite, I met multiple people in rounds that lasted about 45 minutes each. The interviews were friendly and the questions were relatively basic, focused more on my experience than on anything extremely advanced. I left feeling like I had done well, but I never got the follow-up I expected after the onsite.

In the end, the recruiting team moved forward with someone else without much additional clarity, and the whole process left me more frustrated by the

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