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Translations.com Reviews

2.8

37% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)
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Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Translations.com has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Translations.com employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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40 reviews
2.0
31 Jan 2015

Burn and Churn Business Model

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company provides a good learning experience in a corporate environment for fresh college graduates.

Cons

There is zero career-building potential here. Promotions are a joke because they're NOT based on merit. They're given to people who have simply stayed with the company longer than others, meaning employees are forced to report to under-qualified seniors. The company doesn't have a choice in this because they're stuck in an endless cycle of incredibly high turnover rate. The work environment is one submerged under constant deadline pressures and insufficient staffing. This problem is prevalent in every single company department (sales, client services, production, etc.). The vendors sourced by the company to handle the actual translations also get burned with low rates and unforgiving deadlines. The translation quality absolutely suffers from this bad practice, and it is a miracle that this company has been able to retain big clients. Employees are expected to work after-hours to cater to "urgent" requests, so they rarely get to leave at the end of their paid shift. Overtime is but a dream. This is not a place for work-life balance. To top it off, pay is NOT commensurate with the hard work being done, nor the sheer amount of extra hours of personal time that employees sacrifice to finish their unfair workloads. Morale is extremely low, and a majority of employees are working with one foot out the door in search of greener pastures. Without mentioning anything regarding the management here (and believe that there is much to say), job seekers please BEWARE.

1.0
19 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Can't think of anything. You tell me.

Cons

(This review is only about San Francisco Production) There is no rule on anything. No real training on new hires. No professional career potential whatsoever. Someone people work at home all the time and some disappear regularly with various excuses. (Having a kid is a perfect reason to be a slacker there) Don't get fooled by the description in job posting: "As a result of continued demand for our products and services..." This is not even true and they're always hiring because people keep leaving the company. Very high turnover rate. Don't even apply and waste your time. Look somewhere else. If you have no other choice, good luck with them. The company's overall focus is on sales. They don't care about translation quality. I'm reading their job description for PM position and am laughing out loud. This is comedy!

1.0
26 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Colleagues: most of the ones I interacted with on a daily basis were professional, skilled, friendly people.

Cons

- Blindly money-hunger, money-driven company with a very short term approach: let's make as much money as possible for as long as it lasts. Zero strategy, zero vision, zero planning. The mission statement is a concoction of buzzwords phrased into a very long sentence that was grammatically correct, but very shallow in terms of meaning. - Freelancers are milked like cows, project managers waste hours negotiating discounts of 0.5 cents per word with them, and they blatantly lie to them and promise lots of future assignments that would never happen. - Utterly incompetent managers who still believe that shouting and banging fists on the table is synonym with good management. I've never witnessed such a mix of cluelessness and arrogance. - Clients are considered like cows to milk as well, there is no actual care for quality assurance when delivering an assignment. - This approach causes frustration and those who stay simply stop caring because there is no other way to survive in such an unethical environment. It's a pity to see good people and valuable professionals being turned into hollowed out shells of what they used to be.

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