No leaders in upper management, and worse, no vision for the future! - Anonymous employee Align Technology Employee Review

1.0
8 Jul 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This product should take over the orthodontic industry, and continues to grow steadily despite upper managements lack of strategic thinking. The only reason people still wear metal braces? The customers (orthodontists/dentists) don't like Align!

Cons

Annually the customers report a horrid experience with the product- mainly because of unfriendly policies and Align's arrogant approach to customer service. When competition arrives Align will fall very hard. New management has just been placed in key areas, however, the common feeling among employees is that the right people were not put into place because of an out of touch CEO doesn't know the business any longer. Lots of new spending on new Sr. Director and VP positions on people without any experience at this level, and weren't even successful from the positions they were coming from. Many departments have a revolving door in the HR department. Way too much turnover because employees don't trust the people in upper management, and don't see a future at this company.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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