I wouldn’t recommend working here - Anonymous employee Ancestry Employee Review

2.0
Nov 2, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I met a great bunch of people and I think this is the only thing that kept me going in this company.

Cons

Being abused over the phone by customers, office politics. No room for growth within the company. Fake transparency and pretending like they care about their employees opinions when clearly they don’t.

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Cons

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Pros

The work-life balance is pretty good. I have never had issues taking time off when I needed to. The pay and benefits are on par with other, similar jobs in the area. There are many long-time employees at the company.

Cons

The company is product-led, so leadership is more concerned with shipping new features than they are with making sure what they have already shipped works well. Restricted stock unit grants always come with a one year vesting cliff, whether an employee has worked at the company for two years or twenty years. They do not appear to trust that long-time employees will continue to stay at the company, even though they have many long-time employees.

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