High growth company with engaging work but average work-life balance
Pros
-Benefits are good overall. The ESPP is probably the best one offered with the 15% discount on 15% of salary that includes a 2 year lookback window. Some people have been able to get 4x returns depending on when they joined/enrolled. 401K is average (3% match), and the health and dental plans are great. -Fast paced and engaging work with high rate of adoption compared to analytics in other companies. There are very few analytics projects that are not adopted or that do not impact the business. -Simplicity of products, data, and sales cycle. There's really only two products that Align sells: Invisalign & scanners. This makes creating insights and understanding the business very easy. -The company has had very high growth (~20% YoY) which leaves leadership generally open to trying new things and layoffs are unheard of.
Cons
-Compensation seems average initially but yearly raises are small (~3%) which can quickly lead to being paid below market value within a couple of years -Majority of the analytics work is reactive and reporting-centric. There is not a lot of time/desire/need for proactive or predictive analytics work. The company is all about what happened in the last month, and reacting to the latest reporting, rather than having a more long-term outlook. ~25% of most analysts' time is spent summarizing what has happened/changed each month. -While there is flexibility about when to come into the office, fully remote work is not an option with few exceptions -Work-Life balance is strained sometimes. While there are many company holidays and leadership generally supporting taking time to recharge, the reality of a fast-paced company is that many weeks you will need to put in 50+ hours to meet deadlines