-Overworked and underpaid. It is not unusually to spend 10 hour days in the office regularly. Breaking it down, when you work roughly 50 -55 hours a week you're barely making minimum wage.
-No formal training. You're required to watch over 50 "training lectures" in two weeks. You do not learn anything useful for the position at hand. Most people in my office put the video on in the background while struggling with the tasks their manager threw at them their first day.
-Required to cold call professionals who are experts in their given field while you have little training and little to no knowledge of what you're trying to speak to that person about (because of the lack of formal training).
-Mentally exhausting. You are not only working long hours balancing multiple tasks at once, but you are constantly told that you are lacking in one field of your position or the other. As an account manager you are expected to grow current clients, while developing new business. Most days you are so overwhelmed you don't have time to make outbound cold calls during business hours- and you are greatly reprimanded. Over half of my office would talk about the nightmares they would regularly have because of the position. (and the whole division will see. You have to send End of day reports to everyone in your division [so you can compare yourself to other people], and managers will not hesitate to call you out in front of the company if they feel you missed an opportunity or did not do enough in each aspect of the position)
-Self worth. Reading the other reviews a lot of people address that you work long hours, stating this company is not for the lazy. Having positions before and after my time with TransPerfect I can promise you that no other company will work you this hard with this much mental abuse. The people that are not successful in this position are not lazy people - they are overworked to the point where it is unbearable. Some people can stay longer than others, but that is because they either feel trapped from the abuse, are looking into the long future where you can grow and make a lot of money (5 years ish), or somehow are lucky enough to have an office that actually has enough people to work there and share the workload.
-I did not see a single bonus that was promised at my interview.
-When having sales meetings or closing deals, the managers are so overworked themselves that they did not have the time to compile the information that was promised to the lead in the meeting. On more occasions that I can count my manager promised to send information over within 24 hours, but would take upwards to 3-4 business days to send the information along. Naturally, this would lose us the business.
- There is no leaving work at work. Everyone in the company has access to your cell phone number and will use it no matter what hour of the night. You are always on call. You are constantly checking your incoming mail on your phone while you are out to lunch or going on. You cannot escape.
