bad management - Anonymous employee Ancestry Employee Review

Ancestry's management is horrible and obsessed with catchphrases that they haven't even considered the true meaning of- ex. "speed of innovation". If they knew what speed of innovation was, they wouldn't be years behind 23andMe in the rollout of DNA health products. The company is run as if engineers are just meaningless cogs in the machine which have no input into the products they develop. The company is very management heavy- the ratio of managers to engineers is strangely high. Also the pay is low compared with other companies in the area (SF).