Align Technology reviews

- Overall management is chaotic, thus: - Bad work/life balance (even if you don't get to work overtime). - Constant feel of deadline that never fades (this can be actually a Pros for someone, but not for me). - Work strategies that change often, but never actually stay. - Lack of employees to handle requested amount of tasks in requested amount of time, which always results in compromising either quality or mental health (sometimes both). - Amount of meetings is just too much and a lot of them could've being just an email. - Sometimes it seems like there is no management at all and some departments decide how things should be done "on a whim". There is no defined list of rules, which often results in "Sisyphean labor". - No communication and MIScommunication throughout all the levels. Speaking your honest mind when you want to suggest improvements is futile. - No dental insurance.

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.