TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,860 total reviews)

Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

TransPerfect has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,860 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
1.0
Oct 27, 2015

Account Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You may meet some good people along the way before they also quit.

Cons

Both upper and middle management is totally incompetent and disconnected from reality, especially Client Services, which is a total joke.

1.0
Sep 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There is honestly no positives I can think of for this company. I'm only writing this down to meet the 20 word minimum.

Cons

-High employee turnover. Every year there is a batch of employees that leave. -Managers do not have your back. Most of them only care about your monthly revenue and how many projects you can complete. -Salary and Promotion is too structured. Promotion is usually on a yearly basis; employees with be promoted to a higher level after every year if their performance score is up to par. The performance score is calculated based on your monthly revenue, quality of work, etc. After the first year, as long as you pass ~60/100 points, you will be promoted. So if you killed yourself the first year for 100/100 and another employee barely made it with a 65/100, both of you will be promoted and receive the same salary base bump and bonus. -THERE IS NO OVERTIME PAY; THIS IS ALL SALARY. IF YOU WORK 12-14 HOURS A DAY AND RECEIVE SALARY, YOU WILL PROBABLY MAKE MORE AT MCDONALD'S. -Really bad working environment -Unprofessional managers.

1.0
Apr 24, 2015

I made over $200,000 a year AND STILL LEFT...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Great office location -Will teach you the basics of the sales process, project management and client management -Work with prominent clients -Ability to travel and experience other cultures -Made lifelong friends This job prepared me for any experience good or bad

Cons

Here's why this job prepared me for any experience. Because no company should be run this way. It's with a heavy heart that I write this as the company is very successful... -No training whatsoever (I know this because I was asked to coordinate training sessions as a salesperson) -Culture is a frat house -No structure for promotions (nothing is written down) and raises -Nasty emails and passive aggressive discussions are the norm -I was consistently talked down to even though I am a fully functioning adult that is relatively intelligent -Senior managers are abused by the C-suite (not Liz) cursing and horrendous emails- you can google it and see what I'm talking about -The top managers are college friends of the CEO, they talk about earning their spots but were in the right place at the right time -Everyone is afraid of the top management team and do whatever they say- there are no checks and balances -I literally had thousands of dollars in commission taken out of my pocket because of "splits" that senior management thought others deserved. Keep in mind none of these rules are in writing in your sales plan. They just default to people who are the favorites -I received about 500 emails a day and was screamed at when I missed reading one of them that pertained to a training seminar I missed. -The headquarters in New York is a battleground- CEOs are suing each other -Pyramid scheme- the people at the top make a cut off of your commission. -If you start as a higher level sales person you immediately are put on a draw. NO GRACE PERIOD. Even though everyone knows that the translation industry has a long sales cycle. I know people (and personally experienced it myself) that were in hole for over a year.

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