Pros
You get to meet friendly people from all over the world (but everyone leaves within 6 or 8 months, as this is a horrible place to work)
Cons
- You have to work many hours, a lot of times 12 hours a day, and don't get compensated - It's like working in a factory, everyone is responsible for one small part of the process and the work is not intellectually rewarding at all - You feel like a robot in the end doing the same trick over and over again (with someone yelling behind you all the time that you have to go faster and faster) - The management is negative, encouraging staff to give each other 'CAFs', negative feedback. - If you get a 'CAF', or your job was late, you have to send an email to the management why this happened, but with the workload you've got it's impossible to finish a job the way you'd like to finish it. If they respond, they send you a comment about how stupid it was what you did etc. - You get encouraged to treat the linguists bad, underpay them so that the company can gain more money - There are illegal practises like don't paying the overhours, a union which isn't really a union (seniors that really won't stick up for the rights of the employees) - It's impossible to take a day off, because within your team there's only one person at a time allowed to take the day off and for some reason it's never you. Also, on bank holidays mostly you'll have to work (the normal long hours). - They overload you with work and responsibilities even if you can't take it anymore, it's impossible to finish the amount of work within the normal timeframe. Even if you work 12 hours a day the management pushes you to the limit. - The senior management comes from the same company and has been working at TPT for years, they start to accept the horrible work environment.