Sfera Studios Reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)
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John Wallace

49% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Sfera Studios has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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16 reviews
1.0
19 July 2016

Subtitle Sweatshop

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Aside from the tutorials, there's really no pros.

Cons

Translation rate is $2/min an proofread rate is $0.32/min. I've seen all kinds of exploitation in the translation industry, but this is beyond inhumane. They even subtract translators' payment to cover the so-called transaction fee. If you value your own skills, please don't support a company without any pang of ethics.

1.0
9 July 2018

translator

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unfortunately, nothing comes to mind.

Cons

I did several translations and QAs for them in the past, pay wasn't great, but tolerable, communications with assigning staff (back then) acceptable: they usually responded within 1 hour. After the merger, it's become impossible to work for them. I received a QA last night in a weird format, with microscopic fonts uneven in size throughout the project and within minutes contacted the person who assigned it me. I also sent him a screenshot of what I was seeing and asked to make it more legible. There was no response for hours so I contacted the technical support, who issued a ticket and promised to fix the issue. Hours later I received an email informing me that the file had been removed from my portal and assigned to another translator. That's an interesting way of fixing issues. The assigning person asked me to explain what happened. Wasn't it explained in several emails sent to him to which he never responded?? The worst thing is that they have multiple people handling projects, they are constantly changing, there isn't a go-to person to contact if an urgent issue comes up.

3.0
17 May 2018

Nothing yet

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Training is very good/Tutorials are helpful

Cons

A long period has passed after i passed with no news, another long period has passed after i took the training with no work provided.. still waiting, nothing yet

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