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
Dec 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1 - the office is in a good location 2 -working with the linguists 3 - the potential to live abroad 4 - a lot of young employees

Cons

note - i am not a disgruntled employee - anyone who works at the company would agree that these things are fact. 1 - no matter what it is ALWAYS your fault 2 - you work 70+ hours a week 3 - they will work you into the ground and not care 4 - watching your coworkers be broken and seeing the misery and despair on their faces. 5 - the levels of stress are out of control 6 - complete lack of working relationship between sales and production 7 - sales lack of knowledge on what they are selling is disgusting. 8 - upper management has a "just sell it" mentality regardless of how feasible it is on productions part. and will expect you to get it done and berate you when you don't - regardless of whether or not it was actually possible. 9 - a mentality of burn and churn that is demoralizing 10 - upper management continues to put all responsibility on production managers and there is little accountability for anyone else. 11 - they salaries are barely livable for someone in NYC.

1.0
Nov 9, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I am a freelance translator. The assignments offered used to be interesting and reasonably paid, up to two years ago. Not now.

Cons

Assignments are always in a rush, and the rates offered are the worst in the industry. How they can get reasonable quality with their setup is a mystery to me.

2.0
May 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Young crowd, most people in 20s/30s so it's easy to make friends -Nice midtown office -Interesting position, you get to speak with people from all over the world everyday

Cons

-Very long hours, 60-70 hours per week is the norm -Very low pay, about $36k/yr. When you break it down to the houry wage, its somewhere around $15/hr. -Most people burnout or get fired within 6 months-1 year. Or management will try to find a reason to fire you anyway. Within 4 months of when I started, 7 out of the 11 people in my training group were gone. -Hard to take time off since it's always so chaotic and busy -Sometimes management overloads you on projects with ridiculous turnaround times (aka 3 hrs) -Dirt cheap budgets on projects which in turn makes you feel scummy for asking translators to work for .03/word (yes, 3 cents!!). -Much of the blame on mistakes gets put on project coordinators, even for things that are out of their hands -Very bureaucratic operation. For everything that happens, there is a form to file to make something happen. If you do well, a form is filed to recognize it. If you do poorly, there is a form to recognize it. Quality Assurance must be a very busy department.

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