Pros
The only two good things I can say about working there is that usually your teammates will have your back, and that you gain a lot of experience that will make you stand out in future jobs.
Cons
Before anything else, I am not a disgruntled employee – I was not especially unhappy with my conditions, I just wanted more money and my manager was not able to negotiate a better salary. I also want to point out that the positive comments on here, I have seen them almost verbatim on other social networks too. It feels almost planned. Now, onto the company itself. TL;DR: Avoid TransPerfect, it is quite easily the worst company in the industry. The turnover is scandalously high, the pay is offensively low, and the work environment is like a pressure cooker. The only good thing is that it looks good on a CV, since they will make you work ten times as hard as anywhere else (although you will earn a lot less!) The turnover is through the roof, the place is literally a revolving door (especially in the Production/Support teams, which are the largest ones). HR no longer do exit interviews – they haven’t given a reason why but every single person I know who has left has done so because of the pay and the work environment, so connect the dots if you will. Sick leaves due to anxiety are extremely common, and so is workplace harassment and humiliation. It is a daily occurrence to see people crying in the toilet or in the kitchen, or even sobbing while continuing to work, and HR will do nothing about it – why do they still employ and celebrate managers whose teams have an alarmingly high percentage of sick leaves and resignations? You get the feeling that TransPerfect does not care about its workers and HR only protects the company’s interests. The pay is scandalously low for people in non-mgmt and lower mgmt positions – Mercadona pays more, but they will ask you to have a Master’s Degree. Management know the pay is low and the work is thankless and relentless, and they do nothing because they just will hire someone else, probably for less. I cannot stress enough how much contempt HR and management have for workers. Overtime is a regular occurrence and it is not paid or given as PTO. Let me repeat this: OVERTIME IS A REGULAR OCCURRENCE. You get the feeling that the only way to thrive in TransPerfect is if you are willing to brown nose your manager and backstab your co-workers. It is so, so cliquey. As for my experience as a linguist, we were condescended to and had our job changed by native *and* non-native PMs, AMs, and Sales. Other teams will talk to us like we work FOR them, instead of WITH them, and we are disrespected on the daily by pushy managers from other teams. We were expected to fix disastrous translations in impossible turnaround times.
