Pros
1) This is a young company, hiring entry level employees, straight out of college. You will meet a lot of fun and interesting people here and make lasting friendships. 2) You are going to be working in an extremely fast paced/high stress environment. After a few months, you will become very efficient and adept at working under pressure.
Cons
1) Do not expect to have any work/life balance working at TransPerfect. Depending on your department, you will work 50-80 hour weeks. Although the company tells you that the official hours are from 8:30 - 6, you know you are having a good day if you can leave before 7. Also, just because you are working the hours that your I-banking friends are working, it doesn't mean that you are going to make nearly as much money as they do. Your base will probably be around 35k, with quarterly bonuses of a few k's. 2) Pressure from management to handle more and more projects: Because TPT is so understaffed due to a steady stream of people leaving, there are always more projects than the staff they have can handle, which means that the managers will pressure you to take more projects. They tell you that it's up to you to control your workload, but at the end of the day, you end up taking way more work than you can physically handle. 3) The penalty system: When a project goes wrong or when a client makes a complaint, it's automatically a Project Manager's responsibility. As a result, you receive a negative feedback, which at the end of the quarter affects how much bonus you will make. To summarize, you have no life, you make no money, and you get blamed for things that are not under your control.
