Align Technology reviews

-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

The company, though highly prosperous in the field of dental technology, was while I worked there, not professional in two ways. First, in the way they handled qualified people being considered for higher level positions. Specifically, in the Fall on 2020, our group of trainers were informed that one trainer was promoted to supervisor level. With 27 trainers and 5 existing supervisors, we were surprised to learn a person was promoted with no notice or chance for any other well-qualified trainer to throw their hat in the ring as they say. No-one even knew their was an opening. Second, in Fall 2020 the company had training supervisors monitor (i.e. jump onto) any online client training session with as little as 10 minutes notice. As any distance educator knows, there is stress in training a new client. This was an unnecessary added pressure (i.e. being monitored) that could have been remedied by simply recording the sessions for later review. I suggested that solution and was told that was not an option.