Toxic, toxic, toxic - please stay away if you care about your well-being - Anonymous Align Technology Employee Review

1.0
26 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not used the product but it’s very nice

Cons

I am writing about Align’s EMEA region, maybe it’s different in the US. In a nutshell, it was a painful experience that almost drove me to depression and burnout, with zero appreciation and reward for 300% work the company put on me. 1. It’s a hardcore sales environment. You hit the targets, you earn well. If you don’t or you are not in sales, you get the minimum 2. They claim they have heart. Do robots have heart? Lol. Most toxic and impersonal environment I have ever experienced in my career. 3. Some colleagues were plain aggressive and rude and everyone knew about it, yet their behavior was even encouraged by leadership 4. Heavy email culture. A million emails a day - so exhausting, especially after coming back from a day off 5. People are overworked- they work until late at night, send emails and get immediate replies. The stress of another email tomorrow morning is too much so people work and answer emails well into the night. I learned so much during my time at Align, after all I probably covered 3 times the amount of work I would have had during the same time period at a different company, so I am still happy I went through this but even happier now that’s it’s over.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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