experience as a CAD Designer 4 - CAD Designer Align Technology Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Align gave me the opportunity to be part of a great team. They barely recognize you if you have good metrics

Cons

in my 4 year experience Its a very sacrified job, you have to stay long hours in front of a computer and achieve their goals, you dont have enough time to eat, etc, their salaries are no longer competitive and sometimes you feel unfair things as a employee, It has a very toxic environment, you just feel overwhelmed and sometimes your head is going to explote. To me it was just a transit job, so if you think to apply and assure that you will last less than 1 year go ahead, however it is not a place to stay forever for your mental health. Now that im not longer there and its been a while i feel some relief to not be there, i dont miss it at all. When you have meetings with your leaders and you explain how you feel they dont listen to you and they make you feel like you are useless. besides all of this i learned such good things as organization and leadership.

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5.0
Apr 6, 2026
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Pros

Good company, well run with Tom Prescott as President . No personal experience with follow on leadership by Joe Hogan but prior associates speak well of him.

Cons

Challenging environment with growth and simultaneous acquisition of two companies overseas.

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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