Used to be great - Anonymous employee Align Technology Employee Review

2.0
Oct 20, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free Invisalign is a great benefit. Disorganization at the leadership level means you can pretty much work on whatever you want/whatever interests you. There are some high quality, hard workers here that but they are becoming harder to find.

Cons

Many business orgs are lead by incompetent leaders who aren't able to execute and rely completely on others to do their jobs for them. - Disorganization at the leadership level which leads to resourcing issues where there are people on the team who are over utilized/burnt out while others on the team do next to nothing (this may actually be a 'Pro' for low performers who want to have their success be dependent on others doing their job for them). Inefficient processes and a culture of having "too many hands in the pot" which leads to disagreements between the global and regional teams that causes downstream confusion on what is even a priority - Old school thinking in IT department and resistant to change Salary is below market, annual raises do not keep up with inflation, and promotions are hard to come by. - Lots of turnover, if you don't watch out you will be doing 2-3 different jobs with no merit increase

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

It used to be a good company who made a premium product, with smart coworkers, interesting tasks that involved a lot of math problems, with detailed code reviews. It still has generous PTO, sick days and a discounted lunch (in Raleigh office).

Cons

Management changed and there is an ongoing optimisation with hidden layoffs / force quits with no severance. Biased performance reviews with high expectations. Frequent goal changes and useless projects that will eventually be terminated and the whole team will be shuffled or dismissed. Complete delivery mess. Left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Knowledge transfer sucks. The only way to understand the feature is to dig into the code (bad for newbies). New unqualified and arrogant low-level managers and team-leads, hide their uselessness on endless meetings, blah-blah-blahing with no real impact just to add visibility. A lot of stress, 5 days from office in an open space with no remote option even for new parents. The base is low with no stocks. Pro-Russian company, previously based in Moscow, relocated the whole office to the US and Europe due to sanctions during Russian-Ukrainian war (they recently laid-off a few Ukrainian guys).

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