It's a great company, only if you're in the right team - Anonymous employee Align Technology Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I only joined in January this year. Honestly, Align is a great company, and the people are friendly.

Cons

Unfortunately, I'm not working with the right manager in the right department. She's inexperienced and only promoted to a leadership role less than a year. It's obvious micromanagement, and you will be treated disrespectfully if you fail to meet the expectations. Working there for a short period, I received a lot of stress and was described as a slow learner.

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture and work life balance

Cons

No salary adjustment for where you live

3.0
Apr 22, 2026
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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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