TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,857 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 2,857 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 12, 2010

Run Away

Recommend
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Pros

- Very interesting industry - Fast-paced environment - I honestly can't think of another good thing to say I just need to meet the word requirement

Cons

- Project Managers are responsible for overseeing the life of a project as it makes its way through the production cycle. If one department misses a deadline or messes something up and as a result a clients deadline is missed, the blame is put entirely on the Project Manager, even though that is impossible most of the time. - Division management is useless as all decisions must be approved by upper management which has a do-or-die mentality. - Employees are grossly underpaid (Project Managers averaging $37k, get real) for the amount of work they are responsible for - Competition is encouraged instead of teamwork

1.0
Dec 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The company is in CBD - Flexible lunch hours - Employers are young and funny - Linguists are interesting people and nice to work with

Cons

- Managers in upper management lack basic management skills and translation software skills to do their job -Micromanagement is annoying - some employees in junior posts are smart but their efficiency is greatly hindered by their managers - Double standard - Project managers/coordinators are always wrong, senior managers are always right. - Treat linguists with no respect - maybe monolingual English speaker can never understand how it is like to learn a secondary language, and fail to appreciate any cultures besides American culture - The company encourage competition instead of teamwork

1.0
Dec 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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