TransPerfect reviews

1. TransPerfect systematically targets fresh or recent graduates who are eager to please and usually naive and gullible. This allows them to pay low salaries and push their new recruits beyond their limits. It was not uncommon to see female employees crying at their desks at 9pm or 10pm (once a week or every two weeks) 2. There are simply never enough project managers. This means that those that are there are given an unfeasibly high workload. Stress levels are nearly always high. 3. Management don't listen to employees. They are out of touch with what is happening on the ground and undoubtedly justify low morale / stressed employees with some excuse or other, blaming anyone and everyone but themselves 4. The Life Sciences department (40% of the Barcelona office) was changed into a military-like structure, with two newly appointed managers who micro-manage your every move and are constantly pushing you with new projects. It's akin to the old-style prison courtyard, where a watch tower was at its centre. There was usually no watchman in the tower. The tower was there to remind the prisoners that they were constantly being watched. That's what life science felt like ,with the 2 sentinels watching your every move. They themselves have pressure to perform. It all essentially comes down to the fact that there is way too much work.

Forget having a normal life, you'll never leave earlier than 8pm. Forget being 5 minutes late. Forget going out for lunch. If you do either of those things you get called into the manager's office who'll harass you for slacking off. I had a manager approach me and tell me off for getting water from the water cooler every hour. His response was "you're not being productive enough". Once I was 5 minutes late. Guess what? Manager's office. During my first week, when I asked my colleagues where we'd be going for lunch, I got a soulless "we don't do lunch here" reply. This should explain how terrible this company is. Speaking of which, the London office (at least back when I worked there in 2011) is old, has coffee stains everywhere and lacks air conditioning. You're supposed to wear a suit. If you're a university grad and you're thinking of applying for a job at Transperfect, DON'T. They are the typical corporate parody people make out to be. Only this is real life. I still dread offices due to the trauma inflicted by Transperfect, as it was my first proper out of uni job. For the love of god, skip this horrible hell hole and go somewhere else.