TransPerfect reviews

Lowest rates in the industry. Too low to earn a decent living as a sole source of income. The average per word rate is about minimum wage. You have to run like a beggar to grab whatever scraps they throw out there. They just have the plebs bid on everything instead of giving work to those who can do it best. Talent is of no importance. The only selection criterion is who can do it for the least. Forced to use to low quality tools; bad software and awful translation memories. I must say the software (Wordfast) is steadily improving. Proofreaders range from incompetent to novice (lowest bidder); you must translate like a novice who is not a native speaker or like a machine to avoid bad feedback. This can be a Pro depending on your perspective (going word by word is much faster than actually thinking, so you make more money by botching). They can delay payment and even deduct random and disproportionate amounts when one of their allophone proofreaders subjectively decides to not like a common expression. Arguing and demonstrating serves no purpose because they are impervious to reason and don't actually understand their work or the subject. They will rob you. Just a little bit. But they will. Like all FRCA translation services, they have a great disdain for FRCA. Everything is in some strange dialect that doesn't actually exist outside of translations. Generalized low level comprehension of linguistics and language (they think all references are prescriptive and exclusive, rather strange). Project managers regularly try to add extra work to projects and pretend you owe them. They'll even have the incredible gall to ask you for a "favour"! Mistakes enforced despite knowledge that they are mistakes just for the sake of consistency, as if being consistently wrong was a good thing.

Where to start..The company has undergone changes so no ones job is safe. Management has their favorites, my manager certainly did . Completely micromanaged every little thing for every job order. Always under a microscope and expected to sell this company and convince people that the bad reviews are not true when they are. I would like to apologize for all the poor souls I convinced to work here and take a lower hourly rate. Success is only measured by metrics, your effort and hard work does not count if you don't produce the numbers they want. Some metric measured have nothing to do with your direct work either. Many promises about growth but no delivery. They give you more responsibilities but no increase in salary. You are expected to go above and beyond with no incentives or motivation. The little incentives we had like free lunch was taken away quickly. Management is incompetent, just a 3rd party conveying messages from the rest of the company to its recruiters doing all the dirty work. The job became extremely repetitive, no room for higher salary, no motivation, no incentive and started taking a toll on my mental health. Salary and Benefits package not competitive. The culture here? There is no culture and they don't care about their employees. High turnover.