Must be Agile - Anonymous employee Align Technology Employee Review

1.0
Mar 21, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation, benefits, advanced technology in industry, innovation

Cons

Overall, my experience at Align had plenty of positives. The downside of working at Align outweigh the positives. My advice is to do your research and speak to as many RM/TM's as possible about their experience and don't be afraid to ask difficult questions to get their honest feedback. Upper management: (ASD/Directors) little transparency and constant fire drills, priorities are changing by the day, low trust and sneaky behaviors. Middle Management: The amount of responsibilities the RM's have.....they are basically running the entire business with very little to no internal support unless you are favored by upper management. No management training to help with the changing needs of the employees. Forced to figure it on your own and if you don't do it their way, consider your career at Align to be even more challenging. HR: not to be trusted and unethical on so many levels, not considered a resource for anything. Changes need to be made here as HR sets the tone of how the organization handles important issues Work-Life Balance: non existent, especially in middle management, so much workload, reports, quarterly business reviews, internal customers meetings (and the list goes on and more is piled on).

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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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