Unique - Anonymous employee Align Technology Employee Review

4.0
29 Sept 2022
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Recommend
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Pros

- Even though we have hybrid setup 2 days home 3 days office, we could come to office for an hour and it's ok in those 3 days. - Best office food you can ever ask. - Love the snacks at the kitchen. - Laid back, relatively low stress

Cons

- Leadership, in my area as well as some other teams that I've heard from, are expecting employees to be independent. Don't expect someone to sit with you and show around or teach something. This could be a PRO for some especially senior devs while CON for others especially associate. - Quite segregated, so sometimes you do see people become friends across cultures etc but usually people find alike people to themselves, become friends so if you're a new dev, it might not be easy as you like to have coworker friends. - Leaders are great at what they do but not so much in interpersonal skills. - Starbucks coffee shop within the building is not great, also all coffee machines doesn't give good coffee either. - One team could have each dev from variety of time zones making collaboration even harder.

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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
22 Apr 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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