TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,861 total reviews)

Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

TransPerfect has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,861 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TransPerfect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Dec 13, 2016

Director, Business Development

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Little micromanaging -ability to work with clients and colleagues globally -Great technology to sell -Global locations and production centers -Great marketing materials to leverage -Opportunity to travel -Ability to work with large corporations -Accruing PTO days

Cons

-No lead disbursement structure. Management takes any large incoming leads for themselves. -If you do get a lead they're usually a waste of time. -Extremely low pay for one of the toughest sales positions. -No account base, and you're in a draw. Meaning you have to pay your salary back before you make commissions. By the time you establish an account base (3+ years) you'll be so deep in your draw that you won't see any commissions for 8-10 months. -Competitors pay base + commissions + bonuses, so I recommend going elsewhere, don't waste your time here -VERY competitive market. Hundreds of other providers out there -Two different CRMs, so reps call each other's leads/clients all the time -CEO's are in litigation and are spending millions on legal fees. They could care less about their suffering underpaid employees -You're required to do your own collections. Most clients don't pay on time. -You don't get "commissions" until the clients pay. While you wait for payment, you fall deeper into your draw -No consistent training -Morale seems to be low in production. They're overworked and underpaid -Extremely long sales cycle

2.0
Oct 6, 2016

Project Coordinator

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is a job to get project management experience straight out of college. You learn to efficiently multitask in a high paced environment. Because you're kept busy, the day feels like it goes by quickly, even if you are working 10+ hours. The material to be translated that you work with can be very interesting. Team Leads were supportive, patient and a pleasure to work with. After sticking it out for a rough first year, opportunities and salaries increase with possibilities to move internationally.

Cons

Very stressful, lots of work with low pay- Each day, X amount of projects will come in for PM teams to place with linguists or complete. If one PM is sick or leaves early, the burden to place remaining jobs falls on the others. Because of this I (and my colleagues) felt pressured to work overtime without pay. I felt I was shortchanging and cheating linguists out of fair pay because of the tight budgets PCs/PMs are given to work with. Incredibly tight deadlines with a focus on quantity over quality work created a stressful environment.

1.0
Aug 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A hardworking group of people.

Cons

Terrible upper management with very little management skills. A bullying culture is acceptable.

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