TransPerfect reviews

I cannot believe how the senior management team treats their employees. If you want to be looked down on, made fun of, and constantly criticized, this is the place for you. the senior leadership team seriously thinks they are a bunch of celebrities and act like it - refusing to talk to anyone other than themselves at social events, despite yelling at your manager the next day if you don't approach them and say hi. They will also do anything they can to somehow take over your accounts and give them to DBD's/DSA's that work under them so they collect the revenue for it. Hours are absolutely horrible. You can expect to be e-mailed and called 24 hours a day, and if you don't respond to an e-mail within minutes, you get in trouble. You also have to send a "EOD" Report at the end of every work day - listing IN DETAIL what you did all day long. If your manager or a VP decides your "EOD" isn't good enough that day, they REPLY ALL and humiliate you in front of the entire company (the EOD report goes to the entire sales organization, right up to the CEOs). I was at that company long enough to really understand how everything works behind the scene. I was lucky when I first started in that I reported to a VP who actually seemed to care about the people who worked under her. Unfortunately, she left the company after my first 2 years there and it all went downhill from there. It's really sad how stressful and horrible the work environment has become, because the colleagues I worked with were some of the nicest people I've met. Unfortunately, we all bonded through the horrible stress we were put under by sr management. What's even more pathetic is that both Phil and Liz are very nice people and are very smart. I am shocked that they have let their sales organization turn into this circus. If I can offer any advice, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE. I am serious when I say that I developed anxiety from working here. i've been in a new AMAZING job for 6 months, and I stlil have nightmares about getting e-mails from production at 3 am saying a project was never started. I still get nightmares that a VP responded to an EOD and yelled at me in front of the company. It is NOT worth it - and this is from someone who was making close to 6 figures as a DBD. It took a huge toll on my personal life - my boyfriend of 5 years was ready to leave me because this job was making HIM so miserable. also, I recently heard from an employee that is still there that they have blocked the company from accessing glassdoor.com. So all of the positive reviews you've been reading are fake. They know how horrible it is to work there so the sr leadership have been tasked with creating positive fake reviews. This is a fact.

I am writing this review to deter anyone who is applying/thinking about applying for a job at TransPerfect to STOP in his/her tracks and withdraw the application immediately. I can honestly say that I have never felt more psychologically abused in my life. I attended a top tier university, graduated with honors, and arrived at TransPerfect ready and willing to embark on a fulfilling career. How stupid was I. From day one, every tiny mistake I made was pointed out and exaggerated to the point where I had no time to do my job because I constantly had to justify/correct tiny "errors" that even from an objective viewpoint, were absolutely negligible. I was mandated to copy my manager on every single email I sent to a client/the production team, and without fail, in seconds I would receive a response informing me how many "mistakes" I made and how they needed to be fixed immediately. This never stopped. For over half a year, I felt undervalued, unintelligent, and thoroughly unappreciated. I did my absolute best, but that was never good enough. According to my manager and the "higher ups" such as the VPs (who are mostly sadistic sociopaths), I was utterly and completely expandable. Thus, I decided to make TransPerfect the expendable party and promptly evacuated. I am now working at a company in which I am trusted to get my work done, only get (maximum) 10 emails a day (none of which are micromanaging in tone), and receive ONLY constructive criticism/positive remarks on my work. I also earn significantly more a year for a job that is far less demanding and requires that I only be there as long as it takes for me to get the job done. That's how a job should be...and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Recent grads, PLEASE heed my advice. No matter how much you think you need a job straight out of college, this company isn't worth it. You will find better over the summer, or even by the following winter. All my fellow graduates have done so. You can too!