Lionbridge reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,703 total reviews)
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Sebastian Bretschneider

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Lionbridge has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,703 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lionbridge employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Dec 10, 2012

Okay to meh...

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Pros

Working from home is very comfortable and saves on the gas and commute-time budgets. As long as you meet minimum weekly hours and do reasonable work, the job is virtually stress free and puts a few extra bucks in your pocket at $14.50 per hour.

Cons

Expect to put in more time than you're paid for. I put in anywhere between 30% more to twice as much time as is billable, usually much closer to the latter. Why this discrepancy? It's the result of two factors: each billable task is accompanied by instructions that must be read before the task can be completed. But that's not what slows you down. This is: These instructions often change. You don't get paid to read instructions, conduct ongoing education, or attend online seminars. You get paid to complete tasks. Which brings us to the second reason billable time works out to less than actual time: work is not always available and may trickle in very slowly over the course of several days (which is why I'm here, typing this note, instead of working). If you aren't available when the work is, you'll not get it done. If you are, but that work trickles in slowly over the course of a day, you could put in twelve hours waiting for work, only to find, at the end of the day, that your time has produced five billable hours.

2.0
Dec 8, 2012

V. low pay

Recommend
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Pros

Somewhat flexible hours make this a job that can supplement a full-time job if you don't need to make much money.

Cons

Poor pay to begin with and asked to "donate" lots of time for training, resolving tasks, taking webinars, etc. that you aren't paid for doing. Lots of times, jobs aren't available when you have time available to work.

4.0
Dec 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good company to work with. 2. Awesome environment & soothing ambience of office to make one feel at home while still in office. 3. Helpful People and easily approachable. 4. Great exposure to different technical know-hows of Translation Industry. 5. Self Governance environment, no restriction on login-logout timings. 6. One could easily learn different skills sets, with help of all the knowledge of people around.

Cons

1. Few people around act as messengers and don't be surprised that some personal talks that you share with your colleagues may reach to Management and the effect may be visible on your appraisal. Though these messengers do this just to butterify management and have good appraisals every year. If you could ignore them, then Lionbridge is the best place to work with. 2. Management has no direct interaction with employees; it is just few set of people who are recruited as Managers/Leaders to be the link between management and employees. Also, these Managers/Leaders are not reachable or your thoughts/suggestions to them go on deaf ears and never reach to the Management. So, if you need something to be shared, feel free to walk directly to the Management and share your thoughts, in this way your thought reaches the right place without any intervention.

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