Align Technology reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,829 total reviews)
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Joe Hogan

55% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Align Technology has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,829 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Align Technology employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Jul 24, 2014

Worst FP&A team in my experience

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Pros

Overall company culture is good,....

Cons

The FP&A team is run by some individual who sadly does not understand the business, and trades quality for quantity... 10 forecasts within each quarter.. Changing her mind on what is important every day... Having to work long hours is one thing, having to work long hours on meaningless things is another...

2.0
Nov 21, 2023

Worst Culture I have Ever Worked In

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Compensation and that is frankly about it

Cons

Highly depends upon your department. The one I was a part of was highly immature and full of gossip. There was an unlimited amount of politics at play, slacking off, rumor spreading, and poor treatment of teammates. I will say that it was the worst experience I have ever had, at any employer, in my entire career. It was not the startup that it used to be, and management (Mangers and above to Sr. Directors) is highly underqualified for their positions and are more absorbed with playing political games, and with themselves. They are, in no way shape or form, equipped to handle the end of patents (which has recently happened) to clear aligners which generate a large influx of revenue to Align for years, and compete with rising competition. Avoid, don't get distracted by the salary like I did, and find better employment.

2.0
Aug 3, 2023
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Pros

Fair pay, nice offices, fun events, work/life balance possible if you learn to set boundaries.

Cons

Management is horribly disorganized. Processes are poorly documented or not documented at all, and almost never followed, which causes endless problems in an FDA regulated industry. This leads to a perpetual panic mode where engineers are forced to rush out fixes instead of write quality software. There are interesting problems to solve here but you'll be too busy putting out yet another fire to ever work on them. Stinginess with hiring budget has only made this worse; subject matter experts are often forced into mundane work beneath their ability because management won't hire a proper DevOps team to automate things that should be.

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