TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,859 total reviews)

Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

TransPerfect has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,859 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
Jul 2, 2013

Transpoorfect

Recommend
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Pros

Educated, ambitious and highly competent young coworkers; Work with linguists around the world; Learn corporate office etiquette; Acquire high tolerance for stress; Hiring during recession.

Cons

Extremely high turnover; Excessive workload; Long hours, no compensation for overtime; Culture of intimidation and fear; Project management requires no language skills- this is task management at best; Bare minimum of holidays given; Archaic system from Microsoft Outlook to Excel sheets; Niche industry, skill set is extremely specific to the company, does not translate (pun intended) to marketable skills in other industries; Poor infrastructure: they promote from within, which means middle and upper management have no formal training in management and do not have the soft skills required to successfully manage teams of people.

1.0
Jan 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Found some good drinking buddies.

Cons

Management is unprofessional and uninterested in employee satisfaction until you've reaching a certain level. Favorited employees are given successful markets. The positive atmosphere trying to be portrayed on this site is fictitious since senior management is aware of the negative press they're receiving on this site and others. You will work long hours without reward and are supposed to commit to your own success meaning spend out of pocket money to advance your career while you're being paid next to nothing.

1.0
Jul 11, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Travel Some Collegues Were Cool Going out at Sales Conferences was fun

Cons

Everything. 1. Hired as a sales person but had no time to do any sales all positions are essentially admin positions. 2. The hours are ridiculous and should be illegal sometimes forced into working until 8pm at night and if you didn't you weren't commited enough to you work 3. Wasn't told about the Draw until after I had been working quite a while. It's essentially a system whereby you pay back your salary before you make any commission. So if you make 8 % comm on every sale and your basic is € 40k per annum you have to make over € 500k in sales before you get any commission. Needless to say thats a huge number most people don't achieve so make sure you're happy with the basic. 4. Forced travel and unnecessarily long and tiring training. I had to live for weeks in different countries training with often unprepared people for excessively long periods with no breaks. Ended up taking 8 panadols a day just make it through. 5. LETTERING ! They wont explain this to you until after your hired but you have to stuff envelopes - first you have to find people to mail up to 1000 a week so you search and find these people then you have to find their addresses and input into a data system. then every week you have to print lettrers and envelopes and stuff them and post them. Completely absurd 6. EOD !!! End of Days Every day you have to send an e-mail to EVERYONE i the company telling them what you did that was meaningful and they have to be detailed 7. Ridiculously confusing systems. For every job you create you have to send all these complicated mails with their own language TP 500 wc 1300 12/03/2011 8am tyh llj 20000 in the heading and if you get one thing wrong your in trouble. this has to be reiterated in your mail and in numerous other places. 8. Unfair management - I overheard managers been told to keep new staff past 7pm to teach them a lesson ?!?! All in all they work their staff to the bone and take complete advantage. They lie and are underhanded and know a number of staff that had to seek psychiatric assistance after leaving due to stress, anxiety and panic attacks.

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