Align Technology reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,830 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 1,830 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
2.0
Apr 10, 2013

My advice? Take a different job.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, great people, they pay well. Interesting product and strong brand recognition.

Cons

This went from being a really great place in 2009 - 2011, but then it all fell apart in the last year. Now they have blown out all of the old senior leadership and replaced them with people who have a fundamentally different set of values and priorities. The marketing department has been in a constant state of flux for 18 months, and the recent changes have been for the worse, not the better. Personal lives and work/life balance are no longer respected. Face time is prioritized above all else, far more important than results. Where we had a culture that was collaborative and based on teamwork and mutual respect, we are now expected to play politics and everybody is out for themselves. CYA, finger pointing, and ignoring the problems are the only way to survive the new regime. If they don't like you, they will make your life miserable until you quit.

1.0
Dec 4, 2012

Product Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Small company opportunity to get involved

Cons

Highly disorganized, no processes in place, high turnover

2.0
Jan 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You can pretty much contact anyone in the company and they'll at least humor your questions. The company is good at innovating so every year you have new products/features to market

Cons

Bogged down by legal/regulatory fears. They're so afraid of litigation, they end up with the worse marketing copy and least aggressive promotions, while competitors use expired Aligner patents and undercut Invisalign AND break regulatory rules. Yet Align does nothing. The company trots out way too many so called innovations at random times throughout the year, many products overlap in features, so you're constantly training markets on new products for the sake of it. No one is asking if these products are even necessary. MUCH of the senior leadership team don't know what they're doing. They claim to be tech savvy but most can't even work out how to download a testing app. Instead it's just a political hot bed with every department trying to pretend they've done more work. Much of their resources is spent wining and dining doctors but not really figuring out how to get consumers to demand Invisalign. Shifted back from 3 day office hybrid to 5 day work week with little to no warning after 5 years of hybrid work. All in the name of "collaboration". The hilarious thing is most of all of our calls are conducted virtually despite this. Handled restructuring horribly by doing it piecemeal like a reality series, chopping people one department at a time, lasting months.

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