Great place to work - Anonymous employee Ancestry Employee Review

5.0
Jul 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, good benefits, the company tends to promote from within. It's nice to work for a company that's growing, delivering a great product, and actively improving its systems so tomorrow's product will be even better than today's.

Cons

More organizational disruption than would be ideal. The internal joke is that if it's been more than 6 months since the last re-org you shouldn't get too attached to your desk because everyone's likely to be moving before long.

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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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