Ancestry Employee Reviews
Out of 108 Ancestry employee reviews, 65% were positive. The remaining 35% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Ancestry improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Be visionaries and leaders, not administrators; dont' tell lies to appease concerns within but be honest or don't say anything. You've become so good, you deceive even yourselves, thinking that's what they want to hear. Be unified and be an example by knowing your area of responsibility.
Review from Engineering Dept
Getting better eq. Firing senior leaders is very disruptive to people who work on the teams and doesn’t create a culture of psychological safet
Drive the culture of the company forward
Creating a culture of accountability that includes themselves.
Knowing the product. Knowing the user. Respecting the employees. Being honest & transparent. Read: tell the truth.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Health insurance offered is high deductible.
CFO and leadership say you should be loyal, what we do is important. They have major stock and bonuses but tell those underneath to feel privileged to work here. Discredit others that pay and reward as not being good companies. We target top talent but mid to low market stock....compensation.
Review from Engineering Dept
Compensation is low compared to the market and the company knows this and has no plans to change it.
Lower than average market base pay, terrible equity compensation, benefits sub par
The company keeps trying, but continues to fail at paying market rate.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Very siloed organisation. Lots of turf wars
Before Covid, Ancestry didn't get what it takes to be a collaborative and inclusive company. But since it was walled garden, the attitude was go along or leave. With Covid, the broken culture is exacerbated. New leadership who should know better make it worse. Now, people just leave. In droves.
Communication is a little disorganized sometimes
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
The culture is broken cause of constant leadership turnover. A new one comes in and establishes culture and is out in 2 years.
Executives should consider valuing their employees as much as they value their shareholders; there is very little focus on employee morale and overall employee compensation and rewards
Some of the leadership are more political and toxic, cares more about image and are insecure
Review from Marketing Dept
Management don't care about the company's employees. At all. And until that changes, people will continue to be dissatisfied and the culture will stay as it is.
There are so many things at Ancestry which are broken.
Review from Marketing Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Too slow and too many intereviews
The bar is set very low, but the ineptitude of leadership is high. That makes it very hard to hire.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The product only works for white people
some of the leadership is toxic and focused on looking good vs doing what's right
Review from Marketing Dept
Middle management either needs to be improved, or removed, one or the other.
Everything is broken on the user side. But nobody is fixing these things.
Review from Marketing Dept
the culture is best described as "bare minimum effort".
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
More clear goals around ideas.
Review from Engineering Dept