Cool micro, but lacking macro - Frontend Developer Align Technology Employee Review

4.0
Sep 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- company is large and there are variety of ways to develop yourself - participating in making of real product, end result is real production and that's great - interesting projects (but not all :) - really great colleagues, a lot of expert guys - great atmosphere, there are no offenders, it is comfortable - local office team management is quite good. It is easy to tell your opinion and is no problem to make decisions - tech stack mostly is up-to-date (see below) - salary is good - annual bonuses - flexible work hours

Cons

- a lot of legacy in some areas. And it's hard to get rid of. - lack of documentation. Some things are only known by specific people who work here for years - higher management makes strange decisions that can have bad consequences for devs (changing milestones too often, sudden starting/rejecting projects) - it is obvious that Align product needs to be more modern, as long at competitors are on their way. But lot of things are very old-fashioned, and working with it makes a lot of pain.

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Pros

Great culture and work life balance

Cons

No salary adjustment for where you live

3.0
Apr 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It used to be a good company who made a premium product, with smart coworkers, interesting tasks that involved a lot of math problems, with detailed code reviews. It still has generous PTO, sick days and a discounted lunch (in Raleigh office).

Cons

Management changed and there is an ongoing optimisation with hidden layoffs / force quits with no severance. Biased performance reviews with high expectations. Frequent goal changes and useless projects that will eventually be terminated and the whole team will be shuffled or dismissed. Complete delivery mess. Left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Knowledge transfer sucks. The only way to understand the feature is to dig into the code (bad for newbies). New unqualified and arrogant low-level managers and team-leads, hide their uselessness on endless meetings, blah-blah-blahing with no real impact just to add visibility. A lot of stress, 5 days from office in an open space with no remote option even for new parents. The base is low with no stocks. Pro-Russian company, previously based in Moscow, relocated the whole office to the US and Europe due to sanctions during Russian-Ukrainian war (they recently laid-off a few Ukrainian guys).

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