RWS Group reviews

3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,107 total reviews)

Benjamin Faes

43% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

RWS Group has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,107 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RWS Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Mar 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Working from home, very laxative for people who can be independent.

Cons

New management couldn't care less about people, they are making sure this is a horrible environment to work in.

2.0
Sep 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good starting salary, the job provides a good introduction into the translation industry. Plenty of opportunities for overtime. Colleagues tend to be friendly.

Cons

Lack of career progression opportunities, very high turnover rate which places a strain on middle management. Reliance on steady stream of graduates means that people are only trained to a certain level -- beyond that, there's nowhere to go in terms of promotion or further training. Overtime culture to a certain extent - leaving on time on a regular basis is frowned upon. Stress is a real issue and is not taken seriously as a problem by HR/management, even when backed up by a doctor's note. No communication between senior management and staff. Positive feedback is rare.

1.0
Jul 11, 2025

Company is dead

Recommend
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Pros

There were some 7 years ago but I cannot find any at this moment of time. Everything is too late.

Cons

Merging SDL was a complete failure. Company value has dropped to 1/10 since the peak in 2020. Management cannot handle technology business, and had killed most of the good products they have simply by mishandling sales strategy and poor resource management. Look at the PL - the company is pretending to generate profit solely by cutting cost (which is all human resource) and business itself is not growing at all. Until now there is no sales training provided to any business unit (just some cheap nonsence e-training only), no information shared to any sales in the field of how the company differentiate from competitors, R&D cost for tech products is slashed, just adding stupid AI (Third party) to SDL legacy products but no clients find any value to it, noone takes care of existing clients, none of the management tries to put focus in APAC while EMEA is performing terrible (just because management are all no-brainers) The new CEO screams like crazy to uplift each sales' quota without providing enough technical resource, simply proving he has no undrstanding of the business at all. How do you incrase sales from cutting both sales and technical resource ????? Company boasts that they are an "AI" company, but there is no AI developed by the company that reaches any successful/satisfactory quality level as their strong MT competitors do. Quality of Language Weaver (home grown machine translation) generic engine is simply a joke. "Evolve" (integrated localization service of Machine+human translation) has failed miserably as written in their April 2025 media release which means nowhere in the company has any chance to grow, and the management is just thinking about where to sell the company. The company will not remain next year as it is today.

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