Pros
Once you really get an assignment, they pay generously It is a top 10 LSP and so always a good reference in your CV
Cons
They do not even bother wasting your time, sending you excessive e-mails by obviously underworked and bored regional managers who ask you for free support for agency application but then somebody else will get the assignment by Lionbridge in the end. Asking to actually pay a basic fee for accessing TranslationWorkspace and then waiting endlessly for empty promises to get jobs is in fact a knock in the face of any freelancer wanting to work full-time and earn at least enough for basic monthly living. If you have questions in advance, some project mangers will not hesitate to cancel on you spontaneously after spending unpaid hours with job clarifications. Working freelance for Lionbridge is sometimes like walking a revolving door. You believe to be in, but then your' re in fact out most of the time and when your are strugling to accept this, you will be taken in again, but only for some time until this starts all over again, until it leaves you exhausted but in fact you have walked nowhere. If you do not need the pay urgently, just skip this experience. Getting late invoices paid is also sometimes too much dependent whether you are still friendly or already feeling fed up from the endless unpaid bureacracy that they are confronting you with for 1 hour jobs once in a while. Accepting occasional small jobs does not pay off as they will not necessariliy give you more regular work.