TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,859 total reviews)

Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

TransPerfect has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,859 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
2.0
Apr 16, 2013

Not for the faint of heart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Strong product breadth across all needs

Cons

No team feel -- just a bunch of "I"s

2.0
Apr 16, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

international fun loving co-workers and a chance to learn a lot about this business

Cons

Extreme low pay and long hours. They want to squeeze every last amount of energy from their people and underpay them by waiving work visas to unsuspecting fresh out of college foreign kids. Owners have a Lordship peasant mentality. An almost discriminatory preference for under 25 year old workers so they don't have to pay. No overtime yet they expect people to work 14 hour days. Its basically a modern day sweatshop with an outdated .com mentality. Avoid it unless you are desperate

5.0
Apr 7, 2013

Not as bad as all that

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

First, I want to acknowledge that my experience isn't everyone's at the company's. Some people have had bad experiences -- some felt they were set impossible tasks and not appreciated. And I'm sure there's some truth to that. However, one thing you'd never believe from reading most of these comments is that there are many happy employees at TransPerfect. At it's best, TransPerfect is about accountability and responsibility -- with departments run like they are independent small businesses. This leads both to some departments being run very differently than others and to pressure being pushed down to PCs and PMs when it shouldn't be sometimes. There are great opportunities for personal and career growth. The company is always growing -- and so new opportunities keep arising. I've learned more at TransPerfect than I did in my last 2 jobs combined.

Cons

The culture can be a bit confusing -- and many new project managers don't know what they've gotten into. A PM is in a position where they need good relationships with Sales people while at the same time, they need to be pushing back. It takes some time to get this balance right and which is why you need a strong manager you can escalate matters to. They also need to find a way to differentiate themselves -- which a good manager can help with -- but TransPerfect is full of young managers, having their first crack at managing teams under pressure. TransPerfect starts out with a low salary offer -- though with good performance, you can move up the ranks and rapidly change that.

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