Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Transperfect-Translations-Concerns

It's only a matter of time [before] a hungry investigative reporter will burst the ... TransPerfect PR bubble, and release some less than glowing information 

 

What percentage of Transperfect employees do NOT know what an ADVERB is ??!!??

Robert Denoia HR


Transperfect - it would be one thing if Transperfect (TPT, and related companies) were merely a bunch of clowns doing silly things and/or getting their loads on while harming no one, but that is not the case as the company's work product is known world-wide to be of poor quality, and that TPT will LIE to you (DIRECTORS ask their employees to supply FALSE certifications [i.e. certify work that they have not reviewed] of its work product to TPT clients ) while LAUGHING AT YOU. AVOID TRANSPERFECT AT ALL COSTS.

“The [positive] reviews [posted at glassdoor] are FAKE!!!”

Depressing sweatshop … ; TPT's business model is quite simple: hire young college graduates promise a shining future, work them till burnout, pay as little as possible, do not invest in them and recruit on a permanent basis to replace the defectors.


The worst employment experience possible … Project Manager (Former Employee),  New York, NY; I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year; Cons – This company ruined my life for the entire time I was there. 60-80 hour work weeks just don't come close to justifying the horrendous salary, given NYC cost of living. I would have to fight to take my vacation time because the busy season never ends. Taking a sick day was considered the worst thing an employee could do; I know multiple co-workers who were asked to write fake reviews for this site; that's how morally bankrupt this place is; Management is entirely apathetic to the toll the hours and stress put on its employees. While upper management makes ridiculous bonuses, it's the production staff that's under-trained, underpaid, and overworked. I have NEVER had such awful stress induced work dreams in my life. At least, when I made it home in time to actually sleep; This job isn't worth it even as an entry level position. If you go, be prepared to give up your life for a company that couldn't care less about yours. Advice to Senior Management – Actually care about your employees. No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

November 2013!

 

 

Update, more stay aways from The Ides of March (March 15) 2014 backwards to November 2013:
 
Transperfect reviews current (3/14) backwards to November (11/13)
 
March 9:
Culture& Values, Work/Life Balance, Senior Management, Comp & Benefits, Career Opportunities all 1/5 except comp/benefits 2/5
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Account Executive (Former Employee)
New York, NY
I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years
ProsYou get a lot of responsibility, if you like getting loads of work without any clear direction and then being yelled at for mistakes, this is the place for you , you are owning it. congratulations and welcome to the world of mind games at TransPerfect
ConsEverything about this place is awful. Senior management does not value a single person. There are some in middle management that try to make some changes, but all that effort is shut down by senior managers. Those in power are a rat pack with no clear experience in accomplishing what they ask their people to do
Advice to Senior ManagementInvest in your people, acknowledge your current model is broken, this is not high school, instead of asking people to write fake reviews just change the environment,
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
 
March 7, 2014
All rankings 1/5
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Anonymous Employee (Former Employee)
I worked at TransPerfect
ProsGrowing business, lots of potential in the sector but management does not prioritize the right needs
ConsHigh turnover, poor management, low salaries
 
March 6, 2014, rankings ALL 1/5
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Burned out and underpaid employees

Project Manager (Former Employee)

London, England (UK)

I worked at TransPerfect full-time for less than a year
ProsMet some lovely people. If you exit TransPerfect alive, you can survive anything!
ConsWhat you will encounter is unpaid overtime and overtime is all that you do there. My contract stated that I have a 1 hour lunch, but I was only on very rare occasions able to have a 20 minute lunch. The workday was supposed to start at 8:30 am and end at 17:30 pm.
In reality, my workdays lasted from 8 am till 11 pm and I was finding it difficult to find time for bathroom breaks. The projects just pour in and you can't do anything about it. You need to final eye the translations and deliver lots of projects at the same time.

As some of the reviews already say here, you are constantly micromanaging and trying to avoid a disaster if you should deliver a project late.

It goes without saying that there is absolutely no work and life balance in this company. Working there has seriously damaged my health. I have anxiety and can't get rid of hand tremors.
Advice to Senior ManagementPlease do something about the working hours and the amount of work you assign per person. What is going on in the company at the moment is extremely unhealthy and I think even illegal. I'm not sure how you can get away with exploiting people like this.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
March 2, 2014, all rankings 1/5

Greed is Good at TransPerfect

Project Manager (Former Employee)

Utrecht (Netherlands)

I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year
ProsI have met some good people, all of whom have left TransPerfect in the meanwhile
ConsAll you will do, is trying to push translators to work for you at ridiculously low rates. Tactics used to get translators' cooperation are making promises of better paid jobs at some point in the future (just do this one for next to nothing, next time I will make it up to you), providing misleading information about the nature of the job ("piece of cake, should not take more than two hours" when you know this is a hell of a job with lots of tables and formatting), claiming the client "has got an issue with your translation" in order to cut payments while no negative feedback was received at all, and overcharging clients for services not performed (skip the proofreading, they won't notice - add formatting, they don't know what this is anyway, charge "project management", they won't protest).

TransPerfect senior management is fully aware of these shinigans, and have in fact raised the minimum mark up from 230 per cent to 270 per cent, forcing project managers to lie and cheat even more in order to meet these ridiculous demands.

Working at TransPerfect will destroy and sense of self esteem. You will become very good at telling half truths or downright lies: this is the only learning you will get from your job.
Advice to Senior ManagementYou are so self absorbed'with your own superiority that any advice is useless, so I won't waste my time.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
February 28, 2014, rankings all 1/5
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Localization Translator (Current Employee)

Utrecht (Netherlands)

I have been working at TransPerfect as a contractor for more than 8 years

ProsI loved working for Overtaal before they were taken over by TransPerfect. Overtaal was one of the few agencies which did not focus solely on short term gains but genuinely cared about the quality of the work performed, its employees and the external translators. After Overtaal had been taken over by TransPerfect, maximising profits became the only concern.

ConsTransPerfect has a very poor reputation among translators. Rates are among the lowest in the industry and you will often find yourself in the hands of unqualified project managers who do not have a clue about translation (most likely they are in their first jobs, straight after college, no linguistic background, minimal training).

After Overtaal had been taken over, there was a true exodus among inhouse staff, who were replaced by unqualified and underpaid starters. Quality suffered enormously, and a large number of major accounts were lost. Rates paid to external translators were cut by about fifty per cent, which again led to an exodus of translators (who are referred to by TransPerfect as "vendors" - a telltale sign). Payment delays were the order of the day and having to wait three months to be paid became normal. In addition to this, TransPerfect charged 20 dollars "payment costs" per transfer, which was taken off every invoice. I lost several hundred dollars because of this.

My cooperation was asked to win a large EU-tender. TransPerfect asked me to submit a signed CV, stating that I would undertake to work for TransPerfect should the tender be won. However, one of the project managers (who has left since, of course) told me that while the CVs of the best-qualified translators would be submitted as tender documents, TransPerfect had already decided that none of them would be used for the job, since cheaper translators were available. The fact that these translators were largely unqualified was completely irrelevant. The CVs of qualified, experienced translators would be used to win the tender, but the work would be given to others who were unqualified and inexperienced - but cheap.

I refused to send in my signed CV and this was the end of the cooperation with Overtaal/TransPerfect. Thankfully, the ploy did not work out and TransPerfect did not win the tender.

Judging from LinkedIn profiles, virtually all project managers I used to cooperate with have now left. Judging from translation jobs sent to me through other agencies, many ex-Overtaal clients have decided to move their business to another agency and I find myself translating the same documents for the same clients again - but not through TransPerfect.

Advice to Senior ManagementAs a relative outsider, it's hard to give advice. It would seem to me that TransPerfect's sole focus is on making money no matter how, Employees, clients and translators are all seen as legitimate sources of income. I doubt if this business philosophy is sustainable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

February 20, 2014, rankings 1/5 except 2/5 comp/bennies, career ops
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DBD (Former Employee)

I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years

ProsI made some great relationships with colleagues who are now my friends. Interestingly, none of them are still with TPT.

ConsI cannot believe how the senior management team treats their employees. If you want to be looked down on, made fun of, and constantly criticized, this is the place for you. the senior leadership team seriously thinks they are a bunch of celebrities and act like it - refusing to talk to anyone other than themselves at social events, despite yelling at your manager the next day if you don't approach them and say hi. They will also do anything they can to somehow take over your accounts and give them to DBD's/DSA's that work under them so they collect the revenue for it.

Hours are absolutely horrible. You can expect to be e-mailed and called 24 hours a day, and if you don't respond to an e-mail within minutes, you get in trouble. You also have to send a "EOD" Report at the end of every work day - listing IN DETAIL what you did all day long. If your manager or a VP decides your "EOD" isn't good enough that day, they REPLY ALL and humiliate you in front of the entire company (the EOD report goes to the entire sales organization, right up to the CEOs).

I was at that company long enough to really understand how everything works behind the scene. I was lucky when I first started in that I reported to a VP who actually seemed to care about the people who worked under her. Unfortunately, she left the company after my first 2 years there and it all went downhill from there.

It's really sad how stressful and horrible the work environment has become, because the colleagues I worked with were some of the nicest people I've met. Unfortunately, we all bonded through the horrible stress we were put under by sr management. What's even more pathetic is that both Phil and Liz are very nice people and are very smart. I am shocked that they have let their sales organization turn into this circus.

If I can offer any advice, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE. I am serious when I say that I developed anxiety from working here. i've been in a new AMAZING job for 6 months, and I stlil have nightmares about getting e-mails from production at 3 am saying a project was never started. I still get nightmares that a VP responded to an EOD and yelled at me in front of the company. It is NOT worth it - and this is from someone who was making close to 6 figures as a DBD. It took a huge toll on my personal life - my boyfriend of 5 years was ready to leave me because this job was making HIM so miserable.

also, I recently heard from an employee that is still there that they have blocked the company from accessing glassdoor.com. So all of the positive reviews you've been reading are fake. They know how horrible it is to work there so the sr leadership have been tasked with creating positive fake reviews. This is a fact.

Advice to Senior ManagementYou're all great sales people, but you are horrible leaders. You need to learn the difference and start treating employees with respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

February 13, 2014, rankings 1/5 culture/values, work/life balance, 2/5 Senior Management, Comp/bennies; 3/5 career ops

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Don't waste years of your life here


 

Project Coordinator (Current Employee)


 

New York, NY


I have been working at TransPerfect full-time for less than a year

ProsYou become close with your co-workers because you're all going through the same difficulties. Similar to a pledge class, I suppose.

ConsTransPerfect's business model is based upon having people work as much unpaid overtime as possible. The business environment is hostile, where departments only interact to yell at each other. Outdated software and processes make what should be easy work, time-consuming. The volume of work that will be assigned to you will be too much. Quality suffers because everything is rushed out the door because there are SO many other jobs that need attention. You can theoretically have a lunch break. If you do leave for more than 20 minutes for lunch, however, you will come back to a stalled project, and tons of emails from people angry that something has gone wrong. That's why no ones does take lunch breaks.

Advice to Senior ManagementIf you've spend the majority of your working career at TransPerfect, you may not realize how toxic the environment is. You need to see how crazy and harmful the culture is at TransPerfect--this is not normal.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

February 13, 2014, all rankings 1/5

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Exausting, terrible too must fastpaced while the organization is not ready


 

Director (Former Employee)


 

Jersey City, NJ


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for less than a year

ProsCan't find pros yet..Still I need to fill up 20 word mimimum.

ConsThere will be tons of emails you will receive overnight, spend all day on sorting out and deleting email. I wish I could escape from this kind of work. With a lot of work with good compensation, I would not complain.but ended up like you work 24 hours due to useless conference calls and interference. The company is so small that the work is not organized and settled, many clients started complaining about receiving coldcall. It is not important how much you can expand the market but how you can retain your customers. Quit thinking of 3000 mailers a month will do the trick. Clients come to you not because of mailers and pamphlets, but because of quality and ISO9001 and ENXXX and nice service.

Advice to Senior ManagementDo not micromanage and don't hire fresh graduate if you want to keep meddle on things. Experienced people with great career know how to act responsibly. Don't be so bossy and do not treat your employee as your own kids

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

February 11, 2014, all rankings 1/5

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Unappreciated, underpaid, discriminated against and just offended


 

Anonymous Employee (Current Employee)


I have been working at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years

ProsMy co-workers across positions are fantastic people. If it wasn't for everyone helping each other out I don't think any of us would have made it past 6 months.

ConsWhere to start... Low pay for very high stress positions. Churn and burn company culture across the engineering, project management, and account management teams.

Younger male employes with less experience paid more than female employees.

Lots of emphasis on blame and not solving the problem.

Advice to Senior Managementbe polite to your employees, just because you're paying us doesn't mean you have the right to be rude. An occasional "Thank You" or "good work" would go a long way.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

February 9, 2014, all rankings 1/5

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Work like a slave with unqualified managers


 

Anonymous Employee (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect

ProsWorking with many nice people and able to work remotely at home. Getting paid on time. It's a good place to start if just graduate.

ConsInternal conflicts all the time. Seems like an enemy between each other rather than a team. Ruled by unqualified managers. Low salary and stressful and expect OT most of the time without paid.

Advice to Senior ManagementJust stick it up yours

February 6, 2014, all rankings 1/5

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Please understand that this type of company is not the norm and something better exists!


 

Account Manager (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for less than a year

ProsYou find out what you DON'T want out of a company and a career. I have no positive comments but have to keep writing to adhere to the 20 word minimum.

ConsI am writing this review to deter anyone who is applying/thinking about applying for a job at TransPerfect to STOP in his/her tracks and withdraw the application immediately. I can honestly say that I have never felt more psychologically abused in my life. I attended a top tier university, graduated with honors, and arrived at TransPerfect ready and willing to embark on a fulfilling career. How stupid was I.

From day one, every tiny mistake I made was pointed out and exaggerated to the point where I had no time to do my job because I constantly had to justify/correct tiny "errors" that even from an objective viewpoint, were absolutely negligible. I was mandated to copy my manager on every single email I sent to a client/the production team, and without fail, in seconds I would receive a response informing me how many "mistakes" I made and how they needed to be fixed immediately. This never stopped. For over half a year, I felt undervalued, unintelligent, and thoroughly unappreciated. I did my absolute best, but that was never good enough. According to my manager and the "higher ups" such as the VPs (who are mostly sadistic sociopaths), I was utterly and completely expandable. Thus, I decided to make TransPerfect the expendable party and promptly evacuated.

I am now working at a company in which I am trusted to get my work done, only get (maximum) 10 emails a day (none of which are micromanaging in tone), and receive ONLY constructive criticism/positive remarks on my work. I also earn significantly more a year for a job that is far less demanding and requires that I only be there as long as it takes for me to get the job done. That's how a job should be...and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Recent grads, PLEASE heed my advice. No matter how much you think you need a job straight out of college, this company isn't worth it. You will find better over the summer, or even by the following winter. All my fellow graduates have done so. You can too!

Advice to Senior ManagementIf Management was willing to receive/act upon advice, the reviews on this site would be 100% more positive. TransPerfect is a hopeless case.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 31, 2014, all rankings 1/5

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The positive reviews are part of a media campaign and have nothing to do with true experiences of TransPerfect employees


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsWorking at TransPerfect allows you to experience first hand the destructive influence malicious management has on company morale and integrity

ConsBasically, everything has been said in the previous reviews. Sure, companies exist to make money and there is nothing wrong with that. At TransPerfect, though, an extra element is brought in: dishonesty, deceit, abuse, fear - all of these are OK if they bring in a buck. Your manager will lie to you when it suits him, you will be expected to lie to clients, promises will be broken as easily as they were made. In our department, my colleagues and I worked about twenty hours' overtime every week. These hours were not accounted for in the regular hour system, but recorded in an Excel sheet kept by the general manager. When we asked how we would be compensated, we were told the budget did not allow any extra payments and it would be time for time.

When we wanted to take the accrued hours, we were told we would have to reach new targets first. When we had reached these targets (which were insanely difficult to reach and necessitated more unpaid overtime) we were told we could not take any time off because we were understaffed and we could not be missed in the office. Hiring extra staff to deal with the super high workload was forbidden because it would cost money. When we protested, we were told that nothing our manager had promised was binding, because he had not put his words in writing, and verbal promises, as a matter of company policy, did not count. We lost all our overtime: I personally lost about 200 hours.

When we contacted TransPerfect's CEO about this (after all, TransPerfect prides itself on its open door policy) we did not hear anything for three months. Then we received a curt email from a PA to the CEO, who informed us that TransPerfect management stood fully behind the actions of our manager.

The facts speak for themselves: worldwide, TransPerfect employs about 2,500 staff. Until about two years ago, every month a company-wide email would be sent to welcome the new hires. On average, between 150 and 250 people would be on the monthly new hire list, but the total headcount remained stable at about 2,500. This means that for every new hire, one person leaves. And that means companywide staff turnover is close to 100 per cent per year.

When TransPerfect realized that anyone with a basic understanding of numbers could figure this out, they stopped distributing the list, but nothing has changed and the exodus has remained at the same incredible level. I worked at TransPerfect for almost two years and when I left, I was the person with the longest tenure (out of about sixty people).

The positive reviews posted here are very obvious fakes, written by an agency to counter the true experiences of real employees. Notice how genuine reviews (almost always negative) tend to come in regularly over a period of months. Then, all of a sudden, there is a burst of glowing reviews, all five-star, all posted in the course of one or two weeks. Notice how vague and general these fake reviews are. Notice how often the word "meritocracy" appears in each of these reviews - probably part of the briefing given by TP to the copywriter. I would not be surprised if the positive reviews were all written by one and the same (trainee) copywriter, who is paid to post such reviews. One consolation: paid by TransPerfect means paid next to nothing, with six months' delay.

Do not waste your time working here.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 27,  2014, culture values, career opps,  work/life balance 1/5, senior management 2/5, comp&benefits, 3/5

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A growing company hell-bent on burn-and-churn employee treatment


 

Project Coordinator (Former Employee)


 

New York, NY


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsThe people are amazing and I made some friends that I know will be life long contacts and this company provides a great insight into the translation business. It will give you the experience necessary to find a good job.

ConsWorking at Transperfect is a bit of a mixed bag as a Project Coordinator. You will love the people you work with and your manager, but you will hate working 12-14 hours per day. This company is the typical post-college modern day sweatshop that has a ridiculously high turnover because people eventually realize they can get jobs where they are respected and do not have to work 70+ hours per weak. This company typically hires kids out of college who don't know much better and make them feel like they are lucky to have the job. Overall, I cannot say that this was a positive experience in anyway. I feel that the only reason this position might be beneficial is when you realize your own potential and leave the company with some knowledge of the translation industry. In a recent interview with a translation company, a hiring manager looked at my resume and said "Transperfect huh? So how long did you work there? I am always interested to see what is the lowest number I can get." This company is a complete joke and is constantly obsessed with making more money at the expense of the health and motivation of their employees. This company is led by people who had almost never held another position anywhere else, and it is absolutely damning to the culture. It produces people who are content with being exploited and they try to impose that upon you as well. This company is a white collar sweatshop that has limited potential for growth. I would not recommend this company to any of my friends entirely because they can prove themselves in a company that actually recognizes success. They are quick to hire anyone because of their high turnover, so if you are a fresh graduate, please take the time to really consider this before accepting the first job offered to you.

Advice to Senior ManagementPlease work on your work-life balance because you end up sacrificing quality of translations because of how much people end up despising this company. Many people who work for this company are often very dissatisfied and management never tends to listen to any review or complaints. Please address complains at an early stage and actually try to fix some of the things people complain about.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

January 22, 2014, culture values 2/5, work/life balance 1/5, senior managemetn3/5, comp&benefits 1/5, career ops 4/5

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Growing opportunity but within the very stressful work environment


 

Project Coordinator (Current Employee)


 

New York, NY


I have been working at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsDevelopment opportunities within a big company with a relatively short history. Short ladder to an upper management.

ConsRidiculous salary, horrible compensation for hard work. Finger pointing work environment - in every situation, the company will find one person to take all the blames. Employees need to be prepared to protect themselves in every single situation. No appreciation for its employees nor forgiveness for any type of errors.

Advice to Senior ManagementPlease do not make the employees feel that they are replaceable although they are in fact replaceable for you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 22, 2014, culture/values, work/life balance, senior managmeent, career ops 1/5, comp/bennies 2/5

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There is a reason why the turnover is like a fast food company


 

Project Coordinator (Former Employee)


 

Newton, MA


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for less than a year

ProsI gained good experience I take elsewhere (where I dont have to work 80 hours a week and am bullied)

ConsIt you are over the age of 35 bullied and ostracized by younger employees they hire out of college as they do not know any better about how people are to be treated...run in a high school clique fashion; unprofessional, abusive

Advice to Senior ManagementStop running Crimson like its a high school clique. Learn to treat people with respect and how to talk to them

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 15, 2014,

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Eye-opening, no work-life balance.


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


 

Barcelona (Spain)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsGreat people, team-atmosphere, learned to be independent and responsible for myself, formed global relationships, free happy hours monthly!

ConsNo work-life balance, awful pay, even when you are not at work you stress about everything that you did that day and everything you have to do the next day. You are not considered a "human" at the company, only a computer operator. Perfection is demanded at all times, managers have been known to yell at people publicly for not meeting very high expectations. You meet amazing people, and become friends, and then they quit.

Advice to Senior ManagementEither hire more people in production to be able to meet the high demand and high workload, or pay project coordinators and project managers more so they feel as if the 60+ hours a week that they spend in the office, and not sleeping, is worth it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 15, 2014

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Not to be recommended


 

Director of Business Development (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years

ProsThe relief when you close the door behind you for the last time when you have managed to break free of this operation.

ConsI worked as a Director of Business Development at TransPerfect. Although my job title may have been impressive the job comes down to endless cold calling, envelope stuffing and telling half truths or downright lies to naive clients. Everyone in Sales does this, it is a fully accepted way of making your money. Clients are considered suckers, and if they are stupid, they deserve to be cheated.

The overall atmosphere is very negative: if a client places a big order, there is no feeling of gratitude for getting the business but just glee at how clueless the client was to buy your story. I have never encountered such a strange attitude anywhere else. The game here is not about winning, but about seeing someone else losing out.

Many people around you will be heavy drinkers (in TransPerfect-speak: work hard, play hard) and co-workers will try to steal clients from each other (in TransPerfect-speak: a healthy, competitive environment). The game here is to set up your reports for failure. If they cannot handle the stress anymore, it's your chance to claim their accounts and start collecting commission.

Earnings are based on recoverable draw. Your sole income will derive from commission, which is paid as an advance against bonuses. TransPerfect will do its best to avoid paying out your commission by posing insane requirements about mark up and profitability. If a job is billed late (something outside your control), you lose your commission. If minimum mark up is not made, same story. If a client pays late, no commission. If a client has a quality issue, your commission will be docked.

This intricate system of fines, deductions and penalties is applied throughout the company and sales, project managers and translators alike will be penalized on any pretence. The customer is always charged in full, of course. Woe the client who pays a bill twice because of an accounting error. They will never get back the amount they overpaid. And guess who they will be harassing to get their money back? The sales person, of course, since he is the point of contact.

When you give in your notice, you will not receive the bonuses owed to you. TransPerfect will recalculate your recoverable draw, and invariably come to the conclusion that you owe the company, instead of the other way round.

Avoid this place.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

January 6, 2014 rankings ALL 1/5

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I was asked to provide assistance to fire my colleague


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


 

Utrecht (Netherlands)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsNone, but you only realise this when you have left TransPerfect and have had enough time to recover from the experience

ConsYou travel to work with a stone in your stomach and return ready to cry. One of my colleagues had a dispute with the General Manager and I was called by HR in London to provide evidence which could be used against my colleague. They pretended this was just an employee survey, but it was quite clear to me what they were after and I refused to corroborate the statements they presented to me.

Nevertheless, my words were twisted and my statements were rephrased in such a way that they shed a very unfavourable light on my colleague. When I saw what they had made of my testimony I protested. I received a very brief acknowledgement from HR, but later the twisted version was used anyway. Three other colleagues were asked to help build the case as well, and I suspect they were too scared to protest and cooperated. We never discussed the matter among ourselves because we felt too embarrassed by having been brought in such a situation. Three months after my refusal to cooperate, my contract was terminated. This is exactly the way the colleague with the dispute had said it would end, in spite of the fact that my team manager had claimed that I had nothing to worry about.

This all happened nearly a year ago, and I felt so miserable after this experience that I was unable to apply for another job until quite recently. Working at TransPerfect completely damaged my self esteem and many of my co-workers have had the same experience.

There is absolutely no point in working here. There were fewer than forty people working in Utrecht, but there was no way you could get to know everyone since the turnover is so incredibly high.

It was a horrible experience.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

December 28, 2013

All rankings 1/5

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Terrible management - exploitation and abuse are the core values of this company


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


 

Utrecht (Netherlands)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsYou learn about the operations of companies where "Greed is Good" is practised to perfection

ConsThe pervasive management technique is instilling fear. The method used is quite simple: you will be praised highly and be told how very special and talented you are, and what great future is in store for you with TransPerfect. Then, when you make the slightest mistake, are unable to do overtime on a particular day or dare to question the decisions of your manager, you will be shouted at, humiliated in front of all your co-workers, be told you are a piece of s. and it would be better if you found another job. The next day, you will be praised again, told that you should not take the treatment of the previous day personally and should understand that your manager was just following orders from his manager in Barcelona. Then, after a week, the abuse will be repeated, followed by profuse reconcilliation again. This is how lover boys prey on their victims and make them completely dependend: your manager will play the same game with you.

Staff turnover is unreal (between 50 and 100 per cent in any given year), pay is just above legal minimum (for project managers with a university degree) hours are long, overtime is mandatory (and unpaid). The unpaid hours are presumably compensated with time off, but taking time off is linked to meeting unreallistically high targets. You will hardly ever reach any of these, and lose the unpaid overtime hours when you quit your job. This is the standard system used at TransPerfect, and copied from the Barcelona office.

Absolute dead end job - no financial prospects, no prospects of promotion in terms of job content. You will spend your days sending translation jobs to the cheapest translators you can find, trying to cut their rates even further, and fighting with Sales about impossible deadlines. This is a white collar sweatshop where workers are just a commodity; they can be used and discarded at will.

Advice to Senior ManagementThere is no point in giving advice. In fact, in one of your memos you stated that the manager I just described was a fine example of everything TransPerfect stands for. This says it all.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

December 27, 2013 all rankings 1/5

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Don't work in production.


 

Technology (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsOutside of production there are actually some decent jobs. I worked in technology, and although I completely identify with the rest of the reviews here, it wasn't like that for me. I worked 40 hour weeks every single week, was paid well compared to the rest of the company, and got along great with my team. However, I realize I am a small, small minority.

ConsStay far, far away from anything in the production department (QA, Quotes, Project Coordinator, Project Manager). My office was 90% production and I saw people breaking down and crying in the lunchroom on a weekly basis. People were paid slave wages for 60+ hour work weeks. The only people that stuck around were because they weren't talented enough to find anything else. Very sad.

Advice to Senior ManagementHonestly, there's no saving this company. Just shut the sweatshop down, you'd be doing everyone a favor.

By the way, everyone knows the five star reviews you guys leave on Glassdoor are fake. So pathetic. Oh, and the fact that Glassdoor is blocked on the corporate network is very telling.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

December 26, 2013 rankings culture and values, work/life balance, senior management 1/5

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Learning experience... Who I do not want to work for...


 

Account Manager (Current Employee)


 

Miami, FL


I have been working at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsAdvancement opportunities, training program, allows you to work with independence...

ConsFraternity culture, cold calling, all they care about is a mark up on sales...

Advice to Senior ManagementStop partying so much...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

December 23, 2013 all rankings 1/5

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Dutch job seekers: stay away!


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


 

Utrecht (Netherlands)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsYou get to know the mechanisms of a corporate monster that aims to exploit as many translators, pm's and other staff as possible, all for the gain of a 2.3 mark up.

ConsA culture of fear and aggresive disrespect, extremely low pay, ridiculous working hours, brainwashed management, and a work ethic that is based on survival of the 'fittest' (people who say yes to everything).

Employees at Transperfect can be divided into two categories: those who have a life, morals, values and empathy and those who live their lives based on fear, power and control without a sense morality. Those who have some sense of right and wrong usually do not stay very long. Those who want to "work their way up" in the company at any costs spend their days sucking up to management, treating translators like crap and have overall lost the ability to use the word no, sacraficing their colleagues' well being in the process. Why? Because TPT never accepts no from an employee, especially a pm.

I am ashamed that transnational companies such as Transperfect are able to bring their poisoning, rigoureus, disrespectful and greedy business model into a country such as Holland. Let's boycot the s. out of companies like these and stop them from spreading corporate violence.

Advice to Senior ManagementStop basing your company model on the dead human ape and go into the 21st century with an attitude of balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

December 17, 2013

All rankings 1/5

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The worst work environment I've ever been in.


 

Customer Service Associate (Former Employee)


 

Tempe, AZ


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsI had a lot of downtime between phone calls to work on homework. The job was very easy.

ConsThe work environment is horrible. Several accounts of contracted workers not being paid at all. Empty promises of upcoming raises that never happened. Employees promised health insurance if full-time but never given it. Have no idea how the company decides who to pay what, because the most experience and hardest working employees were making considerably less than their less experienced counterparts. The management doesn't care about it's employees at all. Management would either be very underhanded and not tell you if there was something they wanted you to do differently and instead complain about it to everyone but you. Upper management know to curse and verbally berate employees.

The schedule often came out at the last minute. Never had the same schedule.

Management is not open to new ideas at all, even if they are extremely easy to implement. Even simple changes most go through upper, upper management who doesn't know how the company works on the ground level and is extremely reluctant to make any kind of change.

This company will do anything it can to exploit and take advantage of it's employees.

Advice to Senior ManagementListen to your employees.

No, I would not recommend

November 19, 2013 culture and values, senior management, comp&benefits, career opportunities all 1/5

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Worked as freelance translator from about 2001 to 2008


 

Freelance Linguist (Former Employee)


 

New York, NY


I worked at TransPerfect as a contractor for more than 5 years

ProsGood place for a newbie translator to get a start, because they have tons of work

ConsThe projects are always in a rush and rates have been very low since 2008. According to translator talk boards, translators stop accepting assignments from TransPerfect as soon as they find work sources that pay better.

Advice to Senior ManagementMake sure the freelancer you contact is qualified. I still get several work offers a day even though I haven't accepted one for years, and most of them are outside my stated capabilities. For example, I get asked to translate into UK English when (as I've told them repeatedly) I do only US English. This is a recipe for poor work, because many new translators are hungry for anything they can get, and optimistically accept anything that comes over the transom.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

November 6, 2013 all rankings 1/5

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Project Manager


 

Project Manager (Former Employee)


 

New York, NY


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years

ProsNice view of Manhattan. You can listen to music while working.

ConsWorst company I ever worked for. Completely unethical and greedy.

Advice to Senior ManagementStop acting like Andrew Carnegie (i.e. be of the opinion that every worker that works for a low wage deserves it, otherwise they wouldn't work for it). Try some modern approaches of motivation and live by example.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

November 2, 2013

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Shameful pay, 10 hours a day


 

Project Manager (Current Employee)


 

New York, NY


I have been working at TransPerfect full-time for more than 3 years

ProsThere are some nice people in this place.
Some of the company's tools are useful and quite interesting.

ConsThe pay here is ridiculous. Go to the Salaries section and check for yourself - those are pretty accurate. Most Project Managers work 10-12 hours on a daily basis and, regardless, get about 40k a year (sometimes less). Overtime work is a gift that the employees give to the company.
Also, the trend is to hire very young, fresh-out-of-college kids. Project Managers are basically all foreign kids needing working visas - this keeps them tied to the company and makes them accept almost unbearable working conditions.
There are no in-house linguists, so all the translation work is outsourced to freelancers or other translation agencies, resulting in us having little or no control over the actual quality of their work.
Attention to quality is not as crucial as the importance of saving money. Our budgets are so tight that we have to hire the cheapest translators, then negotiate even lower rates, and this goes to reinforce the negative reputation that this place already has (both on the translators' and clients' side).

If you are a professional with expertise in this environment, I suggest you check other localization companies. I would only recommend this place to fresh graduates who want to have a brief and intense NY experience, while learning something about the industry.

Advice to Senior ManagementHire more experienced people, pay them decent salaries and invest in the quality of the translations. Stop overworking your employees, or start paying overtime.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

October 30, 2013

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Why


 

Project Coordinator (Former Employee)


I worked at TransPerfect full-time for more than a year

ProsYou learn how malicious management can spread a negative culture, and try to avoid it in the future. The only positive is that you appreciate other agencies when you finally leave TPT.

Consa) We used to constantly lie to the linguists and sometimes to each other. Most "client reviews" are just proofreader's opinions. We used to tell linguists "the client has an issue", while the project was still in production. It's psychological terrorism through lies. Similar practices sometimes among employees. The management from America has established this malicious culture, it affected us all.

b) At Transperfect all linguists involved in a project may be paid less than half of a project's budget. I felt ashamed asking people for highly specialized work at such rates.
I had to use good linguists to secure a client (samples, glossaries etc), and promised them "a big project coming up", and then we would send the bulk of the work to the cheaper ones. To those that worked to get us the client, we would lie that "the client cancelled it".
Our promises worth nothing in this company, I felt I was not a trustworthy person.
Project managers are trained in methods to lower the linguists' rates, as if the linguist are fat cats (!). The "production metrics" for linguists are based on no scientific or empirical evidence whatsoever and are unrealistic. Cheaper linguists accept them and then we consider them responsible for the entire project.

Sales charges clients with "formatting", which is actually done for free by the linguists (!!!). Shameful, and not standard in the industry at all. In one case the linguist asked me for formatting fee, which we charged the client at 3x what the linguist asked me, and I had to refuse it.

c) There is no work-life balance whatsoever, you must stay until you' re done, and you will end up hanging out with your other colleagues. The financial crisis has made many people willing to accept such conditions. The company is extremely profitable and has no reason to resort to exploitation of pretty much everyone, that's really low ethics.

Advice to Senior ManagementManagement thinks that they should make money by lying to the clients, cheating the linguists and abusing any sense of "work hours" of their production employees. Most other agencies live very well by not exploiting and not lying. I know that this is the core mentality of certain people, so it won't change. Any advice would hit on deaf ears.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend


 

Why

Project Coordinator (Former Employee)

I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
Pros – You learn how malicious management can spread a negative culture, and try to avoid it in the future. The only positive is that you appreciate other agencies when you finally leave TPT.
Cons – a) We used to constantly lie to the linguists and sometimes to each other. Most "client reviews" are just proofreader's opinions. We used to tell linguists "the client has an issue", while the project was still in production. It's psychological terrorism through lies. Similar practices sometimes among employees. The management from America has established this malicious culture, it affected us all.

b) At Transperfect all linguists involved in a project may be paid less than half of a project's budget. I felt ashamed asking people for highly specialized work at such rates.
I had to use good linguists to secure a client (samples, glossaries etc), and promised them "a big project coming up", and then we would send the bulk of the work to the cheaper ones. To those that worked to get us the client, we would lie that "the client cancelled it".
Our promises worth nothing in this company, I felt I was not a trustworthy person.
Project managers are trained in methods to lower the linguists' rates, as if the linguist are fat cats (!). The "production metrics" for linguists are based on no scientific or empirical evidence whatsoever and are unrealistic. Cheaper linguists accept them and then we consider them responsible for the entire project.

Sales charges clients with "formatting", which is actually done for free by the linguists (!!!). Shameful, and not standard in the industry at all. In one case the linguist asked me for formatting fee, which we charged the client at 3x what the linguist asked me, and I had to refuse it.

c) There is no work-life balance whatsoever, you must stay until you' re done, and you will end up hanging out with your other colleagues. The financial crisis has made many people willing to accept such conditions. The company is extremely profitable and has no reason to resort to exploitation of pretty much everyone, that's really low ethics.
Advice to Senior Management – Management thinks that they should make money by lying to the clients, cheating the linguists and abusing any sense of "work hours" of their production employees. Most other agencies live very well by not exploiting and not lying. I know that this is the core mentality of certain people, so it won't change. Any advice would hit on deaf ears.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend


  • “Unethical business practices”


  • Translator and Quality Checker (Current Employee)

    New York, NY

    Consno concern about quality, but will fabricate excuses about quality to cut translator pay. Full time staff have very little knowledge about the translation business. Their reputation among translation professionals is very poor. I have seen them staff translation projects with people who were not native speakers of the target language and had a very limited understanding of the source language as well.

    Advice to Senior Management – Think about the long term - you have succeeded in trashing your company's reputation among employees past and present as well as in the industry in general.


    Some good people, horrible company

    Project Coordinator (Current Employee)

    New York, NY


    I have been working at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year

    ConsWhat can i say that hasn't already been stated here in the other reivews? Read them, unfortunately, they're all true. I've met some great people here, guess how many of them are still at TPT, none. That should be enough for you.
    If not, know that you will be treated like an idiot most of the time, talked down to by sales, yelled at by sales.

    You're also told to be positive, no matter what. If you're a good performer, you'll get pulled into meeting rooms and reprimanded if you complain about anything (like working until 10PM every night, not getting approved for reimbursements, being uncomfortably hot b/c they turn off the A/C in the summer or the sheer number of cockroaches crawling around the office).

    Advice to Senior ManagementNothing, they won't listen.

    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

     




    Notorious for bullying translators and banned from http://Proz.com. Need we say more? [Yelp!, as in Help!]
    The reviews for this place are prob the worst I've even seen!
    Transperfect is f*cking awful, and I don't say that as a competitor.
    I can say that their language work is absolute malpractice-level garbage.
    Transperfect is a horrible outfit. NEVER WORK WITH THEM.
    Several people didn't get paid for over a month because Transperfect couldn't mail the checks to the right place. One of these guys got personal assurances from the president, and it still didn't improve.The associates would roll their eyes about Transperfect and their incompetence. Also, a translator told me that they would do things like agree to your rate for a job, then after you had sent them your work call you back and say, "you were too expensive, we're not paying your full rate."
    They sent two [expletive deleted] to make a "one pass, haul ass" walk-through. They reeked of arrogance and just seemed like boneheads.
    We took to calling it "kurukurepaa-fekuto" (A Japanese pun, based on 'kurukurupaa' which means "empty-headed.")


    [JD Underground]


    Since TransPerfect knows that the average employee will last less than a year, all processes have been prescribed in detail so basically anyone can do the job just by clicking on the fields on your screen. This makes for terrible drudgery, also because the software is antiquated and requires entering the same information in many fields over and over again. While the work itself is easy, what makes the job hard is the enormous amount of jobs you need to handle. You will find yourself clicking away like mad, with no time for a lunch break and two to four hours unpaid overtime every day.

    Toxic work environment: one person's gain is the next person's loss, cynical middle management whose pay will depend on the number of unpaid overtime hours they will manage to extract from their reports. Culture of "anything goes as long as it makes us a buck". Workers are a replaceable commodity at TransPerfect.

    Advice to Senior Management  Jobseekers, look elsewhere. This company does not deserve your commitment.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

     10th Circle of Hell … Project Coordinator, Transperfect (Current Employee)

    I have been working at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Cons  -Relationship between sales & production is terrible. The company values sales much more, so production is expected to work above and beyond without any appreciation whatsoever.
    -Pay is awful. I have been working my ass off here for two years WITHOUT a raise. No wonder the turnover rate is so high! Hoping to find another job very soon!
    -Hardly any days off. MLK Jr. Day? Presidents' Day? Veteran's Day? Who would even think to let employees off those days. Every employee loves having not one holiday between Jan 2 and the end of May.
    -No work/life balance. I'm expected to work after-hours with NO overtime pay. And this happens all the time - it's hard to even get a thank you at the end of the day for it. This job has literally made me depressed.
    -Terrible ethics. The budget that sales allocates towards some projects is straight embarrassing - linguists feel robbed (and rightfully so). There is absolutely no push for quality with TransPerfect. It's all about numbers. I can't believe clients come back to TPT..you wouldn't believe some of the things that go on so that markup can be made (steps skipped, unqualified linguists used, etc. etc.). You can thank sales for that.
    -Benefits? What benefits? The company recently auto-enrolled everyone in the company WITHOUT consent (is that legal?). 401k match is a joke..the worst percentage match out of any company I've ever heard.
    -No room for growth. TPT doesn't want you to stay. They want to hire you fresh out of college for minimum pay, then work you until you are burnt out. Then they expect you to leave so that they can hire another batch of hopeful young graduates. If you don't leave, you have to constantly work with new hires - so it's the same mistakes happening over and over! What fun.
    -No push for self-growth. You want to take a class outside of work to improve your language skills/get a PM certification/etc? TPT won't help you out with that. I had a colleague ask for help getting a Quality Management Certification so that she could help save the company in the long run with her Spanish linguistic skills. Did they support her in any way? Of course not! They don't want to contribute to employees' growth because they would rather spend the money on sales "conferences" aka booze trips (nothing for production, obviously), and to attract poor, young, naive recent graduates.
    If you want to feel like you're working in a sweatshop, then TPT is for you.
    Advice to Senior Management  -Give employees INCENTIVE. You hire talented people but then lose them because there is literally no motivation to keep working hard. If you show you will give some sort of reward for showing strong work ethic and going above and beyond, maybe you will actually retain employees. Instead of constantly hiring new people to replace talented employees that got sick of low pay/no respect, work on improving current employees' skills and benefits, so that you can retain customers and ultimately SAVE money in the long run!
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company


    5-Star Reviews Of This Company Must Be a PR Move

    Project Coordinator (Former Employee); I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year; Pros  Exposure to languages can be interesting and unique

    Cons  At first I was excited to join TransPerfect- the pay seemed excellent, it was labeled as a Project Management role, which I was looking for, and I would get to work with languages, all of which sounded perfect. After a 2-week training period in which I didn't learn a single thing about my role, I then started receiving job-specific training from separate individuals with different opinions on how to do the work correctly. Management is there because they were the only ones who didn't quit, and so they have seniority (I'm serious). They are also very passive aggressive to their staff. While I was there we had zero contact from upper management and heard nothing from them regarding the company or the business plan. Non-management is a good group of people who are understaffed and overworked, which makes the compensation irrelevant. Salary is a dirty word here- while the bare minimum amount of expected hours/week is 45, you will likely work 60-80 hour weeks when things get busy, which can be frequent, especially because of the understaffing. Holidays are scarce and the 401K plan is absolutely terrible. From an ethical standpoint, they are also lying to their clients about project rates as a standard practice. While I made some good money at this position and the sheer amount of work volume did give me some solid experience, it was a very destructive culture, and I regret ever being employed there. I have theories about how this company is still in business, but at some point the extremely high turnover rate, ,the dishonesty to their clients and the lack of involvement from upper management will catch up to them in a big way. If you are looking for something that TransPerfect is offering, I would highly recommend looking at every other possible option first.
    Advice to Senior Management  Upper management needs to establish some form of contact with the rest of the company.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

    Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Comp. & Benefits 2/5

    Was offered a permanent position in exchange for a 35 per cent pay cut: when I refused, I was fired.

    Project Manager (Former Employee)

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than 3 years
    Pros  You meet interesting people from all over the world, who tend to leave within a year
    Cons  I worked my ass off for almost three years, and received very positive appraisals. After three temporary contracts, labour law here stipulates that the fourth contract must be for a permanent position. My manager told me that he was very happy with me and would love to keep me. However, I would have to take a 35 per cent pay cut (my salary was under 2200 USD for a fifty tot sixty hour week). When I asked for time to consider, the offer was retracted on the spot and my job was taken over by an "intern", who is paid less than 500 dollars and works a sixty hour week with no training or prospects.
    Advice to Senior Management  Some advice for jobseekers: look elsewhere and do not believe anything you are told by TPT management.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Comp. & Benefits 2/5

    Lots of micro management, no autonomy or independence, endless formfilling, every mouseclick is recorded, dog eats dog

    Project Manager (Former Employee)

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros  You will be very relieved after you have left this business and will greatlly appreciate your next job
    Cons  Oppressive work environment: anything goes as long as long as it brings in revenue. No ethics towards vendors or clients, and as you will soon notice, no ethics to workers either. Management consists of bullies with no morals who grew up in the tradition of manipulation and misrepresentation: those who you have no problem with this, will get promoted. Others will be fired or will leave on their own initiative.

    It's interesting to notice that TPT is well aware of the problems: the positive reviews posted here (which were incidentally posted by either the marketing department or by senior management posing as project managers) never fail to stress how much freedom, satisfaction, opportunity and space for personal growth TPT offers. It is exactly in these areas where the problems are: jobs are absolutely dead-end, every step has been prescribed in great detail with no space for personal input, anything you do, any mail you send will be recorded and checked by your supervisor and you will witness a permanent exodus of staff. Your manager has only one interest: safeguarding his bonus, which (surprise, surprise) will be based on keeping your salary low and making sure you put in at least 10, and often 12 hours a day.

    This is TPT's business model: hire young graduates for minimum wage, work them to the bone and make sure you have got replacements lined up. Once it becomes clear to the new hires that working at TPT is not sustainable, they will leave, only to be replaced by other hopefuls who will go through the same cycle of commitment, disappointment, and departure.

    The same cycle applies to hiring translators: there is a permanent demand for fresh translators, but not because more work keeps coming in. Translators will be lured in with promises of quality work, reasonable pay and a well organized office. Again, reality is the opposite and few translators continue working for TPT after the initial experience. Common complaints include poor cooperation with project managers (who are largely inexperienced), extremely low pay, slow payment (90 days), unrealistic deadlines, and unfounded complaints about quality, just in order to cut payment or refuse payment altogether.

    All in all, not a pretty picture at all.

    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5

    The Good Reviews Are Fake - I was asked to write one as an employee

    Anonymous Employee (Former Employee)

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations
    Pros  I had a desk and a lunch break. There's a 20 word minimum so I have to keep writing just to reach the minimum
    Cons  Glassdoor is meant to be a website that customers, employees, or possibly future employees can get a real view of the company culture, work/life balance etc. It is meant to be honest and an inside look at what goes on. My manager at TransPerfect came to me and asked me to write a positive review for the company. Mind you, my manager never spends time with me, and when she does treats me like I'm incapable of doing anything correctly. My hours are absurd, my work is demeaning, I spend 75% of my day cold-calling, the other 25% I do folding letters, printing envelopes, and stuffing mailers. Based on what I was told I'd be doing as opposed to what I am actually doing, this job is a joke. Actually, this company is a joke and shouldn't even be considered such. I'm not okay with lying to the people who look to this site for guidance and telling them that this is an excellent company with room for growth because, not to burst your bubble ITS NOT. If you're in this mess, get out while you can.
    Advice to Senior Management  People join this company with integrity and morals, and you completely strip them of that. Those smart enough to get out do, and the rest get brain washed into believing what they're doing at TP is honest, good work. This company needs to be revamped from the inside out.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5
    Sales (Former Employee)
    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time
    Pros – They work with a variety of clients.
    Cons – I want to start off by letting any prospective employee know that I have been asked 3 times to write a positive review for this company on this site by my manager, but I will not lie for them on here. The 'great opportunity for growth' reviews are written by their marketing team.

    I would not even call this company, a 'company' it is a scam and they are about two steps away from getting sued by a labor lawyer for their business practices.

    Think you will ever be able to take a holiday? Forget it if you take this job. They give minimal holidays off, meaning Christmas Day (no Jewish holidays), Thanksgiving, New Years Day, and Fourth of July Day. All other holidays or days before or after the holiday you have to work. You are even expected to be by a computer on holidays to handle any last minute requests that come in.

    Its a 'work hard, play hard' environment. This means you will be expected to work from 8 AM to 9 PM every night. Also, they sell 24/7 coverage to their clients, but guess who will covering 24/7? YOU. If you tell them you couldn't sign online, they take you into a conference room and scream at you.

    They give you an unrealistic workload and never pay on any of the commission or bonuses they promise you. I never received one bonus that was promised to me in my interview and they screwed me out of commission on almost every job. The upper management team are all liars and criminals.

    Advice to Senior Management – Prospective Employees: Stay away from this company. There is a reason for all of the negative reviews. They prey on colleague graduates and promise you the world, but it's better to take your time and find a job that will actually be worth it (and pay more!)

    Current Employees: Don't settle for the way you are treated. Let your clients know how management acts, spread the word.

    Management: I'm not going to bother giving you advice because you know exactly what is going on with your employees.

    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO

    If you have no morals or integrity, this is the place for you

    Anonymous Employee (Current Employee)

    I have been working at TransPerfect Translations
    Pros  Sincerely trying to find one, and nothing comes to mind
    Cons  This company is infected with liars from senior management and on down the line

    60 hour work week

    Endless cold-calling and cold-emailing

    Huge lack of respect from upper management

    Working here has honestly made me question my self-worth

    WORST OF ALL: The account managers are told to over quote from day one! It's wrong, immoral, unethical and from a legal standpoint, its theft! You can't charge to translate a document per word, and then up the word count in that document just so you make more commission

    End all be all, this company makes me sick

    Advice to Senior Management  If one of your company values is 'integrity'... you should probably instill that in your employees.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO

     

    Project Coordinator, Transperfect (Former Employee)

     New York, NY

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year
    Pros  Will hire you with no experience and provide solid training. When I left this job after a year--the Job I got right after paid more than double for a less taxing job.
    Cons  Will underpay you for what you do, keep you on salary and expect 80 hour weeks. Only promotes from within. Will fire you if you leave your résumé on monster.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO

    Very negative work environment.

    Account Manager (Former Employee)

     New York, NY

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year
    Pros  None, I have nothing good to say about them
    Cons  Cheap, badly managed, with terrible culture
    Advice to Senior Management  Wake up and take management classes
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO

    The Worst Company in the World

    Project Coordinator (Current Employee)

     New York, NY

    I have been working at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros  I had a desk.
    And a chair.
    Nice coworkers to work with.

    Cons  Working at this company wears you down little by little every day until you begin to value your self worth. Upper management should be utterly ashamed of themselves that they have created such a destructive and unhappy workplace for so many people based on fear and blame.

    They offer no development opportunities at all and the "change" in job titles is usually in name only with the actual job not changing whatsoever. To even get a promotion, the statistic system used is completely flawed, with no transparency about how to achieve good scores and constantly changing targets (which I'm pretty sure is illegal).

    The below-inflation pay raises are equally ridiculous - effectively taking a pay cut after a year of working hard is far from rewarding. Getting a bonus was just as hard - receiving just one negative feedback on a job wiping it out completely.

    I have never met anyone in the company that actual likes working there, which is not a good long-term business model. When I spoke to someone in my new office, they mentioned that they sometimes use translation agencies. I asked which ones and they said SDL and TransPerfect - guess which one I told them not to use anymore?

    Advice to Senior Management  Learn to value staff, even slightly more. Stop putting fake reviews online.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance, ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO

    Disrespectful sales management and unhealthy work environment.

    Sales (Former Employee)

     New York, NY

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time
    Pros  -The CEOs care about their people and push them to improve, but may not know how poorly sales management operates.


    -Young, ambitious and resilient colleagues.



    Cons  -TransPerfect blocks Glassdoor on company computers.



    -Rule by fear, mental abuse and intense micro management. The inner circle generally hides behind cynical emails. You need to tune it out to function normally at work.

    -NY TPT sales management considers yelling, attitude, snide remarks, huffing, talking negatively about others, and "problem child" lists acceptable ways to treat employees. Senior sales management from other offices should also be feared.

    -Management dangles the carrot in front of hungry reps to sell them on the pipe dream of endless income. Most work thanklessly around the clock for years, but leave because they get burned out. The results of their hard labor are gifted to those who stay around long enough.

    -Fake false sense of urgency from management due to poor planning or random immediate requests.

    -Always a quid pro quo mentality.

    -Posh facades, aviator sunglasses, and being openly hung over at meetings gets more traction with management than solid business acumen.

    -I only heard from my manager when they wanted something or had a problem. If you don't suck up to fit in, you're just a number to them.

    -The sales team has a revolving door. The rich get richer by churning through those in their pyramid who build and manage business for them for a meager salary.

    -Many sales managers are too busy to give meaningful guidance, oversight, or show they care. Immediate results are expected and barely recognized.

    -On top of 24/7 end-to-end sales/account management, making contact lists, printing 1,500 mailer letters, and manually stuffing 1,500 envelopes is slave labor; not something nearly everyone in sales is required to do weekly.

    -Management wants you to respond instantly to clients at any hour, which builds unsustainable and unnecessary expectations. No emphasis on a healthy work-life balance; just live for and die for the Client.

    -You only get paid commission after your client pays their bill. If clients pay late, you lose commission. As more time passes, you lose a lot more. If you don't make mandatory markup requirements, you also lose commission. Highway robbery.

    -Way too much email volume because you're forced to be on irrelevant global distribution lists.

    -Cockroaches and fruit flies repeatedly found on the sales floor.

    Advice to Senior Management  -Let respectful people manage and listen to the soldiers instead of the cheerleaders.

    -Giving someone a direct report just because they hit a revenue goal is short changing everyone. They need to know how to manage first.

    -Slow down on buying companies and grow organically. Acquisitions water down the core of the company and inflate revenue. Build with your own people first.

    -Don't be cheap. Stop the recoverable draw structure. Pay employees fairly so they don't starve. You're losing far more capital when trained talent learns their worth and leaves for greener pastures. Hiring waves of new employees to replace vacancies is a quick fix, which repeats the cycle.

    -Hire people with industry experience and a sales background, not just those from job boards for their first job.

    -NY sales management shouldn't have endless slack to treat their staff so poorly. They're toxic and costing the company crops of talented employees, loyal clients, and tons of ill will. Those who move on could be going to current or potential clients, so the negative buzz can be even more costly over the long term.

    -The company is getting a bit too large for two CEO's to run at their traditional level of detail.

    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    2/5 Comp&Benefits, Sr. Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, 2/5 Work/Life Balance, others 1/5 , Disapproves of CEO

    TransPerfect has launched a "positive review" campaign again - ignore the positive postings here, they are fake!

    Project Manager (Former Employee)

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros  On occasion this business has made me laugh, as it does now when I spot the positive reviews and think back of the times when I was required to write similar posts.
    Cons  More frequently, though, this business has made me cry in despair. I felt pure desperation when I was left alone with an unsurmountable workload because of mass defection of my co-workers (average tenure at TPT is less than six months) and my manager told me "there is nothing I can do, this is the way the company is run".

    I was told to misrepresent (remember the training slides: "half a truth is not a lie" and "do not consider the work done, consider what you can charge your client for"?), lie (if you do not make markup, just charge for a larger word count) and misinform (tell the new hire the low salary will be made up in bonuses, when we all know that bonuses are hardly ever paid, and if they are paid, they are a pittance).

    Advice to Senior Management  At least stop posting fake reviews on social network sites. You are making fools of yourselves.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

    Project Manager (Former Employee)
    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros – Semi-decent salary for recent college grads
    Work can be done remotely
    Many offices around the world
    Young, fun staff
    Relaxed dress code

    Cons – After the first week you will never work an 8-9 hour day again. Most weeks average 50-60 hours, but salary doe not reflect this.
    Work/Life balance is a myth and those that pursue it are seen as slackers
    You will spend a large chunk of your day playing the blame game, both offense and defense.
    You do not have sufficient funds to provide a quality product
    To the company all employees are merely cogs in a machine, most employees do not matter to management

    Advice to Senior Management – People can make or break a company. Treat your people better, instead of like Pre- and Post-Software mouse clickers, and maybe your high turnover wouldn't be undermining your efficiency.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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    Absurd turnover rate.

    Administrative (Former Employee)

     New York, NY

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros  Centrally located office in mid-town Manhattan. No other pros, really. This is not a good company to work for.
    Cons  No long-term thinking whatsoever, there's no future at TransPerfect. This company does not value their employees. The staff is not a valued resource at TransPerfect. If you're not happy it's not their problem. Anyone can fill your seat, at any time. 60-70 h work weeks are considered "light" and 80-90 is more like "normal". But don't think you'll get paid a big, fat salary for this work. The starting salary is at the looower end of entry-level and for the hours you are expected/forced to put in, the compensation is ridiculous. Salary increases are low/non-existent and completely at the whim of the owners.
    Advice to Senior Management  Start thinking about the bigger picture, not just the fast cash.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

    Stay away

    Account Executive (Current Employee)

     New York, NY

    I have been working at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year
    Pros  No pros at this company unless you are one of the first Directors of Business developments that stuck around, if you are one, then now your job is to manipulate, abuse, and work green college graduates while they make no money and you come in at 10
    Cons  Upper Management is a joke. They mentally abuse all employees
    Popularity contest in major offices with toxic working environments in most. Worst offenders are New York, DC, and Atlanta
    Future leaders not determined by merit/achievement instead by amount of happy hours attended
    No repercussions for non-performance/low sales numbers because if you go to enough HH and stay out late enough at conferences, you will get promoted
    Culture in New York Office

    Advice to Senior Management  Retain your people, invest in performers, get rid of the weeds,stop thinking about your own pocket books, and get your production team trained and staffed.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Awful company culture, good people

    Director, Business Development (Former Employee)

     London, England (UK)

    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year
    Pros  The hire a lot of cool people, who tend to leave quickly
    Cons  Awful culture, like joining a cult where they tell you the path to success (and therefore your worth as a person) is to stuff envelopes and live in the office. No development, no progression.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend



    October 2013

    This pretty much says it all STAY AWAY FROM TRANSPERFECT ... THEY ARE LIARS and CHEATS


    Project Manager I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year


    ConsFear, abuse, exploitation, betrayal: these four words say it all. There were very serious issues in my department, ranging from drug abuse to intimidation of junior staff by senior management and my manager just laughed at my concerns.



    When I approached HQ with these issues, it took them more than three months to respond. When they did, it appeared that the three months had been spent building a case against me by stealthily contacting my co-workers and putting words in their mouths regarding the accuracy of my concerns.



    Some of my colleagues have forwarded to me email correspondence in which they were quoted as confirming that none of my concerns was founded, whereas they had said exactly the opposite. When they responded to HQ stating that they had been quoted wrong and supporting my point of view, HQ agreed to change the reporting, but never did. Instead, they used their falsified reports to demonstrate that I was a liar and my concerns were just made up stories. Shortly after, my contract was terminated.


    TransPerfect promises absolute confidentiality in their employee questionnaires. Do not believe any of this: the results are sent to your manager with your name included. Your manager will then proceed to make your life miserable and fire you in the end.

    Advice to Senior ManagementTell senior staff to stop lying.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company




    July 2013:

    Stay away”; Account Executive (Current Employee);  New York, NY; I have been working at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year; Pros – No pros at this company unless you are one of the first Directors of Business developments that stuck around, if you are one, then now your job is to manipulate, abuse, and work green college graduates while they make no money and you come in at 10; Cons – Upper Management is a joke. They mentally abuse all employees; Popularity contest in major offices with toxic working environments in most. Worst offenders are New York, DC, and Atlanta; Future leaders not determined by merit/achievement instead by amount of happy hours attended; No repercussions for non-performance/low sales numbers because if you go to enough HH and stay out late enough at conferences, you will get promoted; Culture in New York Office; Advice to Senior Management – Retain your people, invest in performers, get rid of the weeds,stop thinking about your own pocket books, and get your production team trained and staffed.; No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company; Senior Management, Culture & Values, Work/Life Balance all 1/5.


    Awful company culture ”; Director, Business Development (Former Employee); London, England (UK); I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year; Pros – The hire a lot of … people, who tend to leave quickly; Cons – Awful culture, like joining a cult where they tell you the path to success (and therefore your worth as a person) is to stuff envelopes and live in the office. No development, no progression.; No, I would not recommend this company to a friend; Senior Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, Work/Life Balance all 1/5. 

    Jul 8, 2013, Culture & Values, Work/Life Balance, Career Opportunities, Senior Management ALL 1/5, Disapproves of CEO, “Trans-Garbage Technology”; Anonymous Employee (Current Employee); I have been working at TransPerfect Translations as an intern for more than 10 years; Pros – I'm currently working on TP and anyone who is in Technology should not apply to this company or waste there time unless you need a pay check.; Cons – This company still doesn't have any MS license at this stage of the game. Backup solution really sucks. I wish I can continue talking about the infrastructure but its all a joke. Most engineers will sit collecting a pay check because management really doesn't know what to do with them. We have engineers world wide waiting for something to brake making $80K, but according to management they are short handed.. LOL; Advice to Senior Management – Liz, needs to take a look at her technical needs and figure out how to maximize what she has and not spend another $160K on two new engineers.; No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

    Jul 5, 2013, Culture & Values, Comp & Benefits, Work/Life Balance, Career Opportunities, Senior Management ALL 1/5; Disapproves of CEO; “TransPerfect's business model: the raised middle finger”; Project Coordinator (Former Employee)
    Barcelona (Spain); I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for less than a year
    Cons – The work is not what it is claimed to be. Project management has nothing to do with linguistics or genuine project management. A PM's job consists of nothing else than forwarding translations to vendors, demanding the lowest rate and dealing with highly unrealistic promises made by sales, who have no knowledge of linguistics and will promise the moon just to get the deal. Average working day 10 to 12 hours, pay per hour below legal minimum wage. Sales persons work on commission, need to stuff a minimum of 500 envelopes every day and must make 120 cold calls to prospects they need to harvest from the internet. If you do not meet these targets, you will be bullied and humiliated in front of your co-workersThis is not about building meaningful and productive relationships with clients, this is just pointless semi-unskilled production work. Average working day 12 hours, in addition you need to be available on the Phone or by mail 24/7; Turnover is unreal (the average employee lasts less than six months, burnout and sickness absenteeism is skyhigh).

    Pay for all positions is low (you will earn more cleaning TransPerfect's offices than working in them) with lots of promises of bonuses and raises, none of which will materialize. There is a climate of permanent fear and dogs eats dog. In Transperfect's vision, there are three sources of income: clients, suppliers and employees. Add to this the unwillingness to pay taxes or respect laws and you have got a pretty accurate picture of the kind of business you are looking at. Advice to Senior Management – Management knows what they are doing: earning tons of money no matter what. Since TransPerfect is only about money, there is no need for advice to management.

    Instead, I will give some advice to jobseekers: heed the warnings on this site. The positive reviews have been posted by senior TransPerfect staff who have been instructed to do so in order to create a favorable image on social media.The negative reviews represent the experiences of people who got burned. In a time of recession it may be hard to find a job, but TransPerfect is a place to avoid.
    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company 

    Culture of intimidation and fear; Poor infrastructure; Advice to prospective employees: Heed the warnings of the honest glassdoor reviews, and enter at your own risk
     
    Transpoorfect”; Project Coordinator (Former Employee); New York, NY;
    I worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year; Cons – Extremely high turnover; Excessive workload; Long hours, no compensation for overtime; Culture of intimidation and fear; Niche industry, skill set is extremely specific to the company, does not translate (pun intended) to marketable skills in other industries; Poor infrastructure: they promote from within, which means middle and upper management have no formal training in management and do not have the soft skills required to successfully manage teams of people. ; Advice to Senior Management – People are not machines. A person's daily output varies from individual to individual and cannot be measured against the most efficient employee holding the same title. Invest in your employees and do not micromanage them; they will build resentment towards you and eventually stop caring about the quality of their work. Streamline workflows and build APIs so that employees do not waste time on extraordinarily mundane tasks.; Advice to prospective employees: Heed the warnings of the honest glassdoor reviews, and enter at your own risk. No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company 1/5 all: Work/Life Balance, Cultiure & Values, Senior Management, Comp & Benefits, Career Opportunities; Disapproves of CEO

    May, 2013:

    “A sect, rather than a business. Avoid at all cost”

    Former Employee – worked at TransPerfect Translations full-time for more than a year

    ProsI have been thinking hard to come up with pros, but even a statement like "it's better than nothing" is inaccurate. I would venture to say that having nothing is better than being part of this operation, since having no job at all will allow you to look for employment. The 60-hour weeks spent at your TPT desk and the resulting exhaustion will it make very difficult to look for anything else while working at this abusive sweatshop.


    ConsI would say the biggest price I paid was the loss of my self esteem. Working at TransPerfect will teach you to lie, misrepresent and take advantage of those around you, be it co-workers, translators or clients.There is an omnipresent spirit of "anything goes as long as it makes us money" and this involves underpaying those who do the actual work, overcharging clients, falsifying certifications, dodging taxes - you name it, it's there.



    After a year or so, this way of thinking becomes part of you, and you start to accept this as perfectly normal behavior. It's then difficult to realize what you got into, and even more difficult to get out. The ban on maintaining a Linkedin profile speaks volumes about the business culture, as does the 15-page non-disclosure agreement you are required to sign. Avoid this business like the plague: it will consume your entire life, take away your personal pride and bring nothing.

    Advice to Senior ManagementIn his last convocation to his underlings, the CEO compared himself to Napoleon. I do not think Napoleon was open to advice, and I will not waste my time giving advice to his successor.

    No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
    Work/Life Balance, Senior Management, Culture & Values, Career Opportunities, ALL 1/5

     

    Worked till burnout and then dumped”; Former Team Lead in Barcelona (Spain) – Reviewed May, 2013
    Cons – You will be part of an operation which runs on deceit and pitting people against each other. Sales against project management, project management against translators, employees against each other, management against reports. There is a permanent sense of fear and stress, which I never experienced anywhere else before. The game is not about winning: the real spirit here is making sure your counterpart loses. Pay is abysmal, raises unheard of, 12-hour days are standard. You will take a PowerPoint training from which I will never forget two key slides, which boldly stated: "less than full disclosure does not equal dishonesty" and (this is the best) "half a truth is not a lie". This is how project managers are taught to deal with translators and this says it all. Anyone with an ounce of integrity will leave within a year. Do yourself a favor and pass up this opportunity. I learned at my detriment: after a year I suffered a severe breakdown and I was dumped within six weeks. This is how many people end their careers at TransPerfect. Advice to Senior Management – Be honest about your intentions. This is a sweatshop running on abuse and you might as well be open about it. Work/Life Balance 1/5; Compensation & Benefits 1/5; Career Opportunities 1/5; Senior Leadership 1/5; Would not recommend this company to a friend;
    TransAwful” Former Sales – Reviewed May, 2013; Cons – * hardcore sales - no time to build actual relationships with clients due to unrealistic goals; * not just stressful (hey, which job isn't) but actually disstressing a lot of the time; * elbow mentality; * sustainability is not something that matters to management; * if you read headlines like “The most psychologically abusive institution I've ever been part of” - believe it! it's true; Advice to Senior Management – Wake up and understand that your employees are the best resource and ambassadors a company can have. Treat them fairly and it will benefit the company overall. If you have to constantly hire new people to replace the ones that do a runner, you will never be able to benefit from knowledge transfer and loyal employees; Work/Life Bvalance: 1/5; Senior Leadership 1/5; Culture & Values 1/5, Disapproves CEO Rating; Would NOT recommend this company to a friend, Thinks the company will perform worse
    Don't Stay; Current Freelance Translator – Reviewed May,  2013;  It's obvious that few PMs stay at TP for longer than a year; Advice to Senior Management – Please re-consider your whole business strategy. Stop treating people like crap. Culture & Values 1/5; Would not recommend this company to a friend

     

    Current – New

    Pros – Nothing to be thankful in working at this miserable place.
    Cons – You will attacked and abused if you make a small mistake.

    You will be bullied if you leave on time after working 10hrs a day with 15 mins of lunch break.

    Too many rats sneaking behind your back to your manager.

    Everybody is terrified to loose their job because your not good enough meaning your not willing to out 14hrs a day of free labor and no over time.

    One advise all the good reviews all fake believe me! You wont know it unless if you enter this miserable place.

    Advice to Senior Management – Management are miserable and want to put down your self esteem.
    Currently working full time 
    • Compensation & Benefits 1/5
    • Work/Life Balance 1/5
    • Career Opportunities 1/5
    • Culture & Values 1/5
    • Senior Leadership 1/5
     Salient Features of posted reviews portraying Transperfect as the bottom of the barrel: “The positive reviews are part of a campaign to present TPT as a happy place to work: reality is the opposite, though”; You will meet other[‘s] who were taken in by the same empty promises. Cons – TPT is run from the top by a number of managers who got in at the start of the company, about twenty years ago. The work is done by thousands … who are … fired or harassed into handing in their notice as easily as they were hired; If you are looking for meaningful work, and pride in your job, stay away. You will … be discarded if a cheaper alternative becomes available. The fact that TransPerfect has now started a campaign where senior staff are required to submit positive postings on social media [sites] (such as Glassdoor) speaks volumes about the business culture. To describe this business in one word: deceit. Misrepresenting TransPerfect culture as honest and caring, creating an image of a sustainable career and promising a growth path will only attract people looking for jobs where these values are present. They will be lured in, find out they made a mistake and leave within a year. Either live up to your promises or be open about what TransPerfect is about: a white collar sweatshop. Rankings: Senior Leadership, Culture and Values 1/5; “TransPerfect NOT the Perfect Employer” A very demeaning job. A horrible company culture. Cons – This is not a human company; “If there was an option for zero stars, I'd use it”; Cons – Management is unprofessional and uninterested in employee[s]; The positive atmosphere trying to be portrayed on this site is fictitious since senior management is aware of the negative press they're receiving on this site and others. “So glad it's over!” Working for TransPerfect provides first hand experience of being bullied, abused and treated with absolute contempt - this is an experience not easily gained elsewhere, and in that sense, it was very educational. Also the feeling of immense relief when I finally left the office for the last time was very pleasant; Cons – Long hours, low pay, overworked co-workers, insincere management. Nothing wrong with hard work, I have worked sixty to eighty-hour weeks before and actually enjoyed it. The difference here is that in return for your blood, sweat and tears you will not receive the slightest form of appreciation. Once you break down, you will be discarded. Employees are played against each other (in TP-speak this is called "an atmosphere of healthy competition”) are encouraged to inform on each other, employees are purposely kept in a state of anguish about the security of their jobs, salaries are frequently late. There is a culture of substance abuse (in TP-speak called "work hard, play hard") and office politics are practiced to perfection. Staff turnover in one year in my department was close to 100 per cent; “Project Managers - enter at your own risk....”; stress to the point where you WILL see people crying at their desks. I decided to leave as I couldn't listen to people moan anymore about how depressed they were & I had had enough; Management are useless, intimidating and run the department through fear with a discipline system in place called CAFs. If you make a mistake on a project you will have to explain what went wrong and be bullied into accepting responsibility even if the project was bad due to very low budget and only being able to pay rubbish [to] linguists; TPT do[es] not value staff at all; HR is frightened of management and do not do the job they are supposed to; only work here if you have nothing else & need experience - but keep looking, you can do better!; Once you are in you will realize you made a mistake; bickering all the time … level of micromanagement is incredible … not allowed to take any decisions yourself. Your manager gets paid for keeping your salary low. You will work at least ten, but more likely twelve hours a day, and get paid for eight … promises [never] honored. Turnover is laughable “The Good Reviews [posted by TPT] Are Fake”; Poor business model; Immature, inexperienced management - unprofessional behavior that results in favoritism, and un-deserved promotions; Advice to Senior Management – > Respect your employees (All of them, even the ones who don't party with upper-management); “A very unhappy place to work”; "Meritocracy" is subjective at best. Nepotism is rampant. Immature employee  / upper-management relationships; “Wretched. Engage at your own risk”; False promise of a meritocracy quickly exposed after witnessing firsthand the extreme subjectivity of senior management; "Fun" and “youthful" work environment breeds a very unprofessional work culture including nepotism and other inappropriate work situations; Advice to Senior Management – change your business model so people can actually want to build careers [at TPT]; “Not a sustainable career”; Quality will continue to decrease [with current business model]; “avoid this place at all costs. The job market may be hard, but this is the LAST place you could ever want to be”; This is a terrible place to work. Anyone who says otherwise, CLEARLY, is not telling the truth. This company always over promises and never fulfills promises. They tell you things will get better and then they get worse than they were the first time around! … This place is HORRENDOUS. A corrective action form (CAF) comes in and if it's related to language, the project manager's performance review suffers even though they're not required to know the language or read it in the first place. If you can, avoid this place at all costs. TERRIBLE place to work, TERRIBLE environment, TERRIBLE morale; take my word, and stay far far away. Do yourself a favor do no work [at Transperfect]. Was not a good experience in the least. I do not want to get into the details. Just G*ogling the name should tell you everything you needed to know; Worst Company Ever. Pros: nothing Cons: everything; Horrible company that no one should waste their time working at unless they appreciate being treated horribly, working under the dumbest most unqualified management and having no job security or [potential for] advancement. “Not to be recommended” Uncaring upper-management demands unrealistic hours. Advice to Senior Management – Respect your employees, respect the vendors that work for you, be professional in the workplace, change your business model so people can actually want to build careers [at Transperfect]; “Not a sustainable career.” Quality will continue to decrease until Project Managers are fairly compensated with the pay they deserve. “Incompetent management and horrible pay” Management treats you like dirt; My manager, specifically, had no idea what he or she was doing. It's a mystery how he or she got the job. The HR policies are deceptive. HR will tell you that you can accumulate the hours you've worked overtime to take days off later. However you will not be able to take them off when there's "low capacity", and will continue to accrue them. “Absolutely awful” You might meet some great people, but they won't stick around for long...and neither should you. … ridiculously high turnover! “The super positive reviews here [are] fake.” 3 Park is The Slaveship. Wish I had made that up rather than learned it; Over worked, under paid, bullied, super high turnover, pyramid scam for Sr. management and lifers who got in before 2005 – 6; I've never posted on a page like this before, but felt compelled to after reading the [Transperfect Marketing/Communication Dept.] Marcom written positive reviews. Hopefully, those spawn more ex employees to call [TPT’s] B.S. and write on here for the first time. Worst job I ever had ( a few years ago), with the worst corporate culture. You run into people who used to work there and they are all so happy to be gone. My advice is keep it up, maybe another company will take your market share. “Fake positiveness, no respect” … Haggling with project managers… their snark starts to show through their fake positiveness as soon as you challenge them; Advice to Senior Management – Get your head out of your rear ends and start paying attention to what your employees and contractors are saying about you (getting people to put up fake positive reviews does not convince anyone). You can't go on abusing your employees forever. Your house of cards will fall down at some point, and you won't be left with any friends to call on. [From Ind*ed dot com] TransPerfect has very low company morale; The level of stress for most workers is very high while compensation is very low. … most leave as soon as they can. “Absolutely awful”; Would not recommend this company to a friend; “Cheap company with poor upper management!” This was a really awful job; miserable to witness was how trainers acted towards new PMs during training period … publicly shamed; scores of PMs quit in 6 months to a year and go on to be really happy elsewhere; Outside of the office social events are really boozey. pretty off-putting … production is a revolving door for a reason… this a really unsustainable model. … Sr. management's appearance of having their head stuck in the sand and their lack of response to the obvious revolving door of production staff (either voluntarily or by termination). Issues with production are NEVER the fault of management decisions - but ALWAYS the fault of the employee....and thus TP continues to hire unqualified employees ...if that's the case. Don't have the right middle management structure in place. As this has been a continuing issue for years....it would be best to hire a consultant to come in and tell you where the issues are - seeing you don't seem to want to hear it from your worker bees.
    “Extremely bad quality management” Advice to Senior Management – Actually apply the quality standards (ISO) you say you apply … “Awful environment, Wannabe Managers, No real knowledge or training” a lot of free booze if you brown nose management; reactionary rather than innovative; management promotes their sorority sisters and frat brothers (without merit) before anyone else; high, high turnover for a reason; Sr. management is highly narcissistic; “I know the job search is tough right now, but keep looking!!” … The office is severely understaffed because of the incredibly high turnover rate. Taking a lunch is impossible. The "experience" mentioned in other reviews is simply having an office job to put on your resume. Most transactions between PCs and linguists occur with very little professionalism, which would not fly at almost any other work place. There is little to no thinking in this job; … just processing and meeting an overload of insanely tight deadlines; Poor training/Treated with disrespect …the amount of micro-managing was beyond belief. … absolute disrespect and intolerance. One of my coworkers actually told me she wouldn't speak to a dog the way the trainer addressed me!! … Unhappy employees/Dismal workplace; There is absolutely no time for fun conversation or teamwork throughout the day. You are glued to your computer for 12 plus hours- processing projects and managing deadlines; there is no camaraderie or socializing at all during office hours. Managers would come down HARD on mistakes- leaving employees who just worked 20 hours of unpaid overtime to the point of tears, with absolutely no thanks. … “Now I know what I don't want in a job” This is a job so people can understand what they do not want in their career. Pattern of staff terminations (voluntary or not), clearly indicates there is a spoke broken in the training curve and production wheel...although blame is continually deflected from this blatant problem to make it appear the issue is the lack of skill with the production team. These issues have been happening for months if not years, with continual staff turnover. It's not the staff's problem, but the production model that is in place; middle management appears to believe it's purely a staff issue - as proved by their revolving door of departing staff. Can 100 employees all be so bad at their jobs? This reflect[s] poorly on the hiring judgment of managers; By supporting the continual acceptance of deadlines that are not obtainable, production staff members are continually set up to fail; unhappiness and frustration within all sectors of TPT; How can any business plan support continual increase in revenue when your most valuable assets keep walking out the door? [Management] respond[ed] to my concerns as being unacceptable. What I do now enjoy, is my new [non TPT] job; [comment about facilities at 3 Park, where the staff have aggressively attempted to accost employees they do not like:] P.S. Did I mention the women's bathroom frequently runs out of toilet paper and/or paper towels and there's always one stall that no one dares enter? Advice to Senior Management – For your own sake, PLEASE invest in the people that add quality to your company. It's time for TransPerfect to look internally at their production process; I can't imagine this is the first time these observations have been relayed to management. After all, anyone with any business savvy is very aware of the employee reviews publicly posted on the Internet (Glassd*or [etc.]). If things don't change, it's only a matter of time when a hungry investigative reporter will burst the wonderful TransPerfect PR bubble, and release some less than glowing information; My overall experience at TransPerfect was not something I would recommend.” Most employees are expected to attend social functions outside of the office which becomes burdensome; There is a lot of turnover … the proper infrastructure [is not] in place, … caus[ing] problems when it comes to issues with Human Resources, Training, etc. “Sweatshop.” Tense, stressed, and often hostile work environment, poor management, bad communication and leadership; You hear only 2 things from management: 1) you messed up, and you are getting a "verbal warning" ("you're inefficient" is a popular one, to demoralize their hard-working employees); or if someone is doing well; 2) you need to be taking on more work. (Simply meeting the demands of the job will not cut it. If you're good at it, management uses this against you to pile on more projects); Inflexible about vacation or time off; No lunch breaks.
    Office is drab, cheap, and in need of repair. Bathrooms are filthy; it would help if the place was less depressing; Bring in management with leadership experience. Someone who has worked at TransPerfect long enough to climb the ladder to management level does not qualify them as a capable manager, and leaves entire departments to fend for themselves with no guidance and no leader; “Boring and not in line with what was indicated about the job at the interview.”; Cons – Unreasonable work hours; expect you to work for 9-10 hour days with no lunch break and almost zero team interaction. Do not work here, the term 'work/life balance" does not exist; describe jobs properly during interviews - to make sure people really understand the type of position they are taking on. This is not a true "project management" position; Poor feedback, management; Repetitive Stressful Work; few incentives for most employees; The work is the modern equivalent of an assembly line with lower pay and fewer benefits. Turnover is ridiculous basically everyone there is waiting for a better opportunity elsewhere, and after awhile any opportunity.


    from: 


    Transperfect Morphs into Giant Patent Troll

    Bialystock (reading adaptation of Kafka’s  
    Metamorphosis while looking for worst play ever written):
    "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning
    to discover that he had been transformed
    into a giant cockroach..." (Pauses.) Nah, it's too good.
    —The Producers (1968)

    Do you want a measure of The Great Stagnation in Localization Land? The mosquito-infested backwater of language technology now has its very own patent troll! Yes! Transperfect’s purchase of WorldLingo has nothing to do with the acquiree’s technology (which is probably commoditized anyway). According to David Grunwald, the bold merger is a tactic by Transperfect to seize WorldLingo’s patents and then use them in ongoing litigation against a competitor in the field of localizing websites for large corporates. In other words, Transperfect is becoming a patent troll.

    What is a patent troll, you ask? To phrase it in the style of Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, it is the bloodcurling sound of the technology industry eating its young. The issue was brought to mainstream attention by a recent podcast from the teams ofThis American Life and Planet Money (When Patents Attack). (By the way, have I recommended This American Life? Did I mention it’s free?) To put it succinctly, a patent troll is a company that buys up reams of patents from other companies and then uses them to sue innovative start-ups. The objective is simply to extort money. There are entire companies in Silicon Valley that do not create anything but simply snap up legacy patents and use them as part of a tech version of racketeering (“that’s a really nice technology company you have there; it’d be a shame if anything were to happen to it…”). And guess who is the largest patent troll in the Valley? None other than Nathan Myhrvold. And who is Nathan Myhrvold? None other than one of the co-founders of Microsoft. Great Stagnation, Exhibit A: “Thy name is Myhrvold.”

    What is wrong with that, you ask? Patents, after all, were invented to protect the work of the inventors who make our lives better. Well, the problem is that in the IT sphere the idea of a patent is problematic. One example is the idea of using the Internet to distribute a piece of software via downloading. The software itself, of course, should have a copyright. That is not the issue. The idea of downloading software via the Web in general, well… not so much. And American judges and the U.S. Patent Office until twenty years ago were inclined to this common-sense view of technology: The hurdles to get an IT patent were many and difficult to leap over. That is, until the tide started shifting in the 1990s. And now you basically can’t move a single inch in Silicon Valley without stepping on a the tails of companies holding reams of useless patents, whether for offensive or preemptive purposes. Indeed, one of the causes for Tyler Cowen’s innovation slowdown may well be the peculiarities of patent-trolling and the U.S. legal system.

    What does that mean for the translation industry? This means that Transperfect is probably planning to use a patent that describes in vague terms a system that employs, say, machine translation, translation memory and terminology management over the Web. None of these ideas by themselves is original. You didn’t need a genius to come along and “invent” the idea of using computers to translate text. Or of recycling previous translations. Or of using the Web to harness the power of the hamster mob. But (wham!) Transperfect is going to leverage those dead patents to hit a competitor.



    ... Leviticus 18 (not a value judgment)

    From RipOffReport: I present this report to blacklist Transperfect for [their] ... unethical practice[s].  Any company that [conducts themselves as does TPT] should be avoided.

    This just in! more STAY AWAY(s) from TRANSPERFECT:

    from nopeanuts, 2/29/12: DH says:
    I can only agree. Avoid transperfect at all costs. In 30 years of otherwise untainted experience as a freelancer I have never once encountered a firm of such ill repute with employees who blatantly lie to get your interest. I worked a three week assignment for them abroad earlier this year. To this day they still owe me $8,225. Steer clear of this company and believe nothing they tell you. Given the amount they owe me i am meanwhile considering legal action. Care to comment, Alejandro Gonzalez at TransPerfect?

    Amplicate: 100% HATE … http://amplicate.com/search/transperfect


    From Kevin Loss* …

    http://blog.gts-translation.com/2010/11/14/proz-com-bans-transperfect-from-posting-jobs/

    Well, it’s not unexpected to see this action [Transperfect being BANNED by Proz!]. With the first job I did for [Transperfect] many, many years ago, they took … 7 months to pay and kept making excuses about the invoice getting lost in the New York office. Then after an abusive PM in the London office flipped out when I fixed some incorrect medical terminology in a previous translation that had a few new bits added, I asked that they no longer pester me. For about another 5 years they continued with their spam on a weekly (almost daily) basis, until I finally had such a vehement discussion with a supervisor that things quieted down and I thought I had finally been purged as requested. Until someone from the Hong Kong office started it all over again last month. Apparently they cannot be trusted to remove information when they say they have done so. So for various reasons I have considered TransPerfect a bad actor for some time, and I am pleased that action has been taken in this case ... The company’s lack of organization … are such obvious sources of trouble that I think one must be critically short of self-respect to pursue a relationship [with Transperfect].

    From Proz commenting on their post announcing the BANNING of Transperfect from posting on its website!

    This post was the most widely read post ever published on the GTS blog


    From Twittoaster:


    Transperfect has figured out how to get really bad feedback and make it go viralhttp://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?vie... yet another thread


    I get in more or less regular intervals "job offers" form the translation giant Transperfect.
    However, in the past I had mostly BAD experiences with this company and these experiences also showed, that it does not pay (literally!) to work for Transperfect.

    Transperfect apparently also a bad reputation as a non-payer.
    Yet, the responses from the project managers force me to believe, that I am either dealing with DO NOT care (at all) about the people they are dealing with, or else are so rich, that they run this company purely for fun.

    Labels: Business, cheating, Communications, exploitation


    [Congratulations to the newly minted Denoias (The Editor believes in all People’s Rights); glad you had a fairy tale wedding; Maybe Robert ought to worry about the louche [dubious, shady, disreputable] leanings (attributes) of his Transperfect shop; Ought to get some QA/QC for his postings, but not that of the level provided by TPT and affiliates.]

    Today, experts across the land were stunned to find out that a brand new DeNoia was created. At one time Manhattan was lousey [sic …] with them, but in recent years the decline in the population gave hope and inspiration to many that this once rampant scourge on the city was finally at an end.

    But today, at the office of the City Clerk, a brand spanking new DeNoia was created through the marriage of Robert DeNoia & Morgan LaVere Thornburgh II. 

    The DeNoias, as the [sic] refer to themselves, are denizens of the upper west side, a hotbed of liberal shenanigans and louche [dubious, shady, disreputable … just like Transperfect!] leanings. Where will this all end? Rush Limbaugh has already blamed Obama and Shamus, Mitt Romney's roof-riding dog for allowing this travesty to happen. Rick Santorum vomited. Ron Paul said someting [sic] about pudding.

    Robert and Morgan DeNoia could not be reached for comment, having had a day of revelry at Del Posto (a known outpost for subversives) with the usual suspects - Celie, Berger & Otto. They had the pre-fixe or so they say. You know how these people are.

    People were wonderful to them which should be a major issue in the upcoming Republican primaries.

    New DeNoias? What's next - civil rights for everyone?

    It's a strange world we live in.




    So some fellow who claims to have an executive / leadership level position with translations.com (a Transperfect affiliate) [his name is VanWhatever] has a spouse who gets her load on during the day … passes out on the toilet and causes infrastructure damage to the building they rent in … typical Transperfect behavior … getting your load on, causing wide spread damage … 

    Please get some big heavy chains and attach yourselves to the sinking ship and cultural cesspool that is Transperfect. Your behaviors disgust me.

    “Pathetic Mess, currently being exposed” 

    The most unprofessional and inexperienced management I have ever worked with


    poor management

    QA = BS
    Advice to Senior Management

    show people some consideration and respect

    work on your own Ethics Maual and Hotline, you will be surprised to learn a thing or two


    Not a welcoming environment

    Extremely poor control system

    Senior management is immature and it can be a very high school-esque environment. It's frustrating to work endlessly and see no potential for reward. Incredibly high turnover is a telling indicator.  co-workers ... they're miserable ; Advice to Senior Management
    recognize that your internal corporate culture is a mess,

    Terrible salary and office culture. High turnover.
    Advice to Senior Management Learn to treat employees with respect.


    They work you to the bone and for a joke of a pay. i got this job right out of college and know that my peers, also right out of college, landed jobs where they earned at least $10K more a year than i got offered at TPT.
    i had little to no time for the actual "sales" part of the sales job.
    my office environment was a joke. needed cubicles to be able to concentrate because honestly, to the person on the other end of the phone, it must have seemed like i was working at a telemarketer's office, having to compete with shouting coworkers and managers.
    you don't get the tools you need to do the job right.
    everyone's unhappy and you never escape the job or talking about it. coworkers will text, call, email you to tell you how unhappy they are which just feeds your own unhappiness.
    management is a complete joke. people moved into management roles simply for sticking around when most people are smart enough to leave after putting in their time. tenure does not a manager make.
    i got little to no direction from my manager and others who were hired 6 months after me were promoted shockingly and suspiciously quickly. i put in my time, begrudgingly, met every goal expected of me, but yet, there was always just one more thing to hit in order to MAYBE get a promotion. promotion: 10% pay increase and start to get commission. i took a job that actually on paper is $2K less a year. i didn't factor in commissions when making my decision because my 0.01% or whatever it was barely even added a cent to my bank account. It was at most $200. others working in larger industries got $1K+.
    There's absolutely nothing motivating sales employees here at ALL. Management is disrespectful.
    the "culture" here is one of work hard, be stressed out, and whoever sucks up most and parties with their boss the most will get the most rewards. not the people actually doing their part to ensure good results for their clients. nope.
    for offices that only have 3 people, there are still closed-door conversations and it's very clear where your place in the totem pole is. you're not important. the cult of managers are the only ones who actually matter here and they honestly do not deserve the pay/rewards they get. i never saw any work done by my manager but she was able to jump in when needed when there was an upset client.
    Advice to Senior Management
    Listen to your people.
    Respect the FEW good people you hire. The ones you do are the ones who leave. There has been a mass exodus and there's a reason for that.

    The management is fine and happy with a revolving door of college grads who they can overwork and underpay until the end of time.

    If things don't change on the employee side, this company ultimately will fall apart because they keep getting more and more business and clients but have less and less people to handle the work.
    Managers may actually have to do some work at some point in order to meet their ridiculous annual sales goals.


    So Liz Elting posts recently via BusinessWeek.com 4 reasons to hire people who are smarter than she ...

    1. Smart people know how to communicate their strengths.

    e.g.s:

    a. Marina Yoffe, Ivy League (!Cornell!) grad ... 'oh my God, look how ugly she is ... how can she expect to get any work with such an ugly picture? She has to take that picture down if she expects to get any work. [the picture was posted on candidate's professional website]

    b. Brent Armstrong, a graduate of Plattsburgh! AND a DIII (yes, DIVISION III (Three) Champ!), ... a product of the same school as Anthony Weiner! ... a DIRECTOR at Transperfect ... asks his charges/colleagues/reports to LIE relative to CERTIFYING transperfect's work product! wouldn't this be in variance with Transperfect's much ballyhoo'd ISO certifications? Mr. Armstrong is also apt to state "Today's Job is to get [redacted] drunk", referring to a female project manager at TPT that he supervised; TPT Management encourages substance abuse in subordinates/direct reports.

    b.2. Anne Lutz, esteemed and cultured? Art Historian come Team Lead, Legal Red at Transperfect ... who, too, asks her colleagues to lie relative to Transperfect's work product / certifications. boo, you're supposed to be smart! (that's why Liz hired you ... you're purportedly an 'art historian' not a dilettante!! or an air-head!!) why not provide some leadership by example?

    c. TPT VP "The Shit" - A person who claims to be a VP at Transperfect, brags about cheating and lying. Joey, 33, who states that he is gay, a Scientologist (a follower of Scientology) states: "I walk down the streets of New York everyday knowing that I am the shit. I probably screwed your girlfriend, wife, daughter or all of the above. ... Just remember no salesman is successful without ... lying. ... I can bone [my clients] if necessary" What would Xenu think? [perhaps, Xenot or Xenut? ... Joey also states that he is (paraphrased) not the sharpest tack on the wall.

    d. Andrew Gates is an IT Help Desk Employee of TPT. Gates has a nasty and inappropriate habit of smirking at people. He is a graduate of SUNY Oswego. Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and Andrew Gates have IQs. Knucklehead Smith does not. Extrapolating on Einstein, everything is relative. If you graduated from SUNY Oswego, or had an IQ similar to Mr. Gates' would you smirk at anyone? Perhaps Mr. Gates learned to smirk at people when he went to a Mensa meeting or when he took coursework at the Courant Institute?

    e. Dan Milczarski is the erstwhile Quality Assurance Director at TPT. New Jersey City University; according to US NEWS NJCU has been ranked as a Tier 4, "Less Selective" School. Dan won an award that was actually presented at NYU. Dan and his QA team attempt to ferret out 'actionable' typographical errors, yet reprimands are doled out by TPT based on whether you are a TPT approved and condoned substance abuser. If you get your load on with the management, you're apt to be off the hook. Dan published a book that has been described as:

    … an unsettling novel.
    The characters are generally unhappy and unlikeable; their problems aren't neatly resolved by the end of the story.
    One word comes to mind after reading this book: pointless.
    It has no discernible plot or storyline, no conflict or resolution, no self discovery or catharsis, no clarity or cohesion.
    The protagonist [author??] is clearly unhappy … living in his miserable past,
    The writing itself is often painful to read. It is utterly disjointed and without cohesion. The author … fails miserably.
    "What on earth is going on here?".
    The book jumps all over the place with seemingly disconnected chapters, as though the author had thrown a few books at the wall, picked up the pages that fell out and then threw them together ...
    Also distressing is the author's (or characters? I'll go with author's) misogyny.
    Every woman is described not in terms of the value of her as a character but ** who she's slept with and how easily.
    Women are referred to as 'stupid whores' and every female character in the book is described in relation to promiscuous behavior.
    If this is how the author views women no wonder he has as much self loathing.
    Save your money.
    The back of a bottle of shampoo has a better plot than this book.

    a fan of Dan has stated: "I walked in his house put my stuff down said where's my copy of [redacted] so I don't leave without it bitch! And he handed it over." [Dan's book?]

    An article in The NYTimes recently described some works as: "so subliterate they made my temples ache". Would this description be applicable in this situation?

    Just like Transperfect: fails miserably

    Also, a TPT Affiliate is impersonating and libeling others on the web. Is Dan the person committing that transgression? That's being a dope! What would the ISO 9001 & EN 15038 Quality Assurance organizations say if that were so? Would ISO and EN then approve of Dan Milczarski being a QA 'Consultant'?

    f. 3 Park AvenueGarbage Attendant – A garbage attendant (who shaves his head) at 3 Park Avenue has in the past acted aggressively, going out of his way on multiple occasions to block the path of an employee of a company headquartered at 3 Park (Transperfect). This behavior is atavistic and is consistent with what one would expect from animals at a zoo. Is this person auditioning for a diorama at the Natural History Museum? With a Wolfeian “pimp roll”?

    g. Dave Patrick who often talks about how much he drinks (getting his load on) has, too, saber rattled aggressively stating : 'me and my boyz are gonna' teach him a lethon'! ... Liz, maybe Dave can teach lethons at transperfect (in between his faculty apps. [e.g. harvard, oxford, etc.] ...). ... so Dave made the 'hire people smarter than' Liz cut, too? Maybe they compared iqs when you were under childbirth epidural? yes?

    are these the people who are 'smarter' than Liz Elting, that are hired by Transperfect?

    2. Smart people are efficient and proactive: LYING on Certifications? Discriminating against women a TPT "Manager" (a female one at that!) considers 'ugly'? Smirking at other employees? Running a QA department that is known as LOW QUALITY world-wide?

    3. Smart people don’t limit themselves to their job descriptions: Take Joey for instance, not only is he (by his own assessment) not the smartest/sharpest tack on the wall, but Joey will go beyond the call of duty and 'bone' [clients?] or daughters?

    Smart people don’t say "no" when asked to go above and beyond: like getting drunk with your supervisor? such as supplying a FALSE/UNTRUE Certification relative to TPT's work product?


    4. Smart people challenge their bosses:
    How about cleaning up the cultural cesspool that Transperfect is apt to be? ... or better yet, the advice of another person: (paraphrased!) put heavy chains around your ankles and jump off the sinking ship that is Transperfect?

    were these attributes discussed when
    Astoria Software Celebrated Its 15th Anniversary at the Center for Information-Development Management's 'Best Practices 2011' Conference?