Pros
- Workplace camaraderie - close knit group of co-workers (among departments), team/family atmosphere - Growing company - the company is growing, increasing business, clients, and sales are comforting given the state of the economy - Quality Assurance - intense quality assurance dept very dedicated to maintaining quality of the work delivered to clients
Cons
- Employee Turnaround - high employee turnaround, many employees don't last long or eventually leave (often due to workload/compensation) - Workload/Compensation - it is established during the interview process that there is no overtime but the amount of overtime expected is not explicitly explained; compensation (bonuses) are quarterly but don't always reflect overtime hours worked: bonuses are reflection of money saved/not spent rather than quality work or overtime spent on work (rather than an incentive to put in occasional overtime hours to produce good work resulting in bonuses, the incentive is to merely to spend less money on projects usually resulting in cheap, less-than-desirable outsourced linguist teams instead of more reliable, better qualified linguist teams). Quarterly production "parties" are not adequate compensation for the extensive hours put in by production teams. - Quality Assurance - as thorough as mentioned above, is most likely a result of trying to save money and refusal to pay more expensive linguists who are usually the best linguists in the industry - Profit Driven Company - understandable in any industry, but all decisions and new initiatives on the production side (ideas to cut costs, drive down rates, etc) are put in place to reduce external spending on jobs while sales translation rates for clients don't reflect said savings.
