Run for your lives! Seriously. - Unpaid Drone Welocalize Employee Review

1.0
Oct 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You know, I wish I could tell you. They seem to do Localization work for some small companies and they have maybe one or two accounts with big firms like Apple, where they send out contractors to do similar work for them. They have changed hands so many times where management is concerned, that it's impossible to get a comprehensive understanding as to who they are or what they really do.

Cons

Do not, I warn you, do NOT agree to work for them as a contractor! I consider myself very unlucky, in that I work through them for Apple and find myself in some sort unsavory arrangement between the two of them to be kept as a 'Permatemp.' Surely everyone has heard that term by now? I have been with Apple for three years with no benefits, and though Welocalize makes a mint off me for my efforts, Apple simply writes that off as a tax deduction. So everyone wins! Oh yeah, except me of course. I want to remind everyone involved that Microsoft was sued $100 million by its Permatemps, and unless Apple and the sleazy agencies it works with want a similar action to take place, I would really suggest they start cleaning their act up a tad. As for myself, I think some folk at non-profits make more than I do, so it's not as though I would be terribly put out if they were to let me go. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention the most important part, that they now owe me 2 week's pay. I haven't heard a peep out of them, so I guess their contractors are expected to work for free now. Welocalize, you're the best!

Explore other reviews about Welocalize

5.0
Apr 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sports-minded team that values hard work.

Cons

Tasks could be repetitive at times

1.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fully work from home job

Cons

Work-life-balance (the way tasks availability works makes it so that you have to stay home most of the day to get hours) Pay (the pay is not competitive at all) Poor management (little to no communication and frequently overhiring, which adds to the lack of available work) Benefits (benefits are only available if you work a certain amount of hours per year, even if they do not have tasks available frequently) Vacation time (vacation time is awarded similarly to the way benefits work. Therefore your vacations are lessened by when task availability decreases) Lack of clarity (company stages meetings under the guise of transparency, but do not address worker concerns, up to and including concerns over lack of work) Mass layoffs (company does mass layoffs frequently, sending out termination emails to multiple employees at once periodically, which adds to general stress and uncertainty about job stability)

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All