Lionbridge reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,699 total reviews)
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Sebastian Bretschneider

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55% positive business outlook

Lionbridge has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,699 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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1.0
Oct 1, 2011

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Pros

Lionbridge is a well-known company and experience with search engine optimization in Lionbridge looks great on your resume.

Cons

You will put in a ratio of up to eight hours of unpaid time per hour of paid time. Expectations of earning $13.50 per hour or working twenty hours per week are grossly exaggerated. They reduce your actual hours worked based on "expected performance metrics" which are impossible to meet in the first several months of employment. Fill in your timesheet for 10 hours of work time, and you will find it reduced by more than half based on their expected productivity. Additionally, assessors study and take tests (all unpaid) for over 66 different tasks. A very limited number of paid tasks can be completed during these first several weeks. Finally, pay is monthly by international wire transfer (from Ireland - which your bank may charge for) and pay is not received until six weeks after the pay period ends. For example, when the September pay period closes (9/30) the payment will not be received in your account until mid-November. Starting out, expect to work up to ten weeks before being paid, and expect to be paid for less than ten hours of "productive time" per month. You could make more money per hour at any minimum wage job. Check the other reviews -- you won't find other assessors contradicting this experience.

1.0
Sep 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

You can pick your work schedule to certain extend one day here or there. If you go on vacation for one month, when you return you will get very little work initially especially if they have enough interpreters.

Cons

Lionbridge has always been a snail in paying. At first when they were not computerized it took between 40 to 55 days to get paid. Now that they are computerized the first year some interpreters were getting work 3/4 time on steady basis and got paid within 30 days. As of August, 2011 they changed their form of payment by deducting 5% of the earnings if an interpreter wanted to get on a Net-15 contract -- meaning one would get paid every 15 days. The other form of payment is after 45 days. In reality they are not paying every 45 days but between 47 to 52 days. Lionbridge finance department is managed with delaying tactics. There is no communication with management at all, except the coordinator of the region. Lionbridge does not believe in seniority among the few interpreters that have stayed and they keep hiring new interpreters. The rate when an interpreter starts is $25 and an interpreter can get an increment of one or two increments of $5.00. Any interpreter that receives an additional increment does not get as much work only the ones that get $25.00. Parking was reimbursed but that perk was taken away. All in all it is not a good company to freelance for.

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