TransPerfect reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(2,859 total reviews)

Phil Shawe

44% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

TransPerfect has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,859 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TransPerfect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jan 5, 2025

RUN!!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of the super jr people are nice and you might be able to make some friends through trauma bonding.

Cons

This place is an absolute nightmare. DO ANYTHING ELSE. GO ANYWHERE ELSE. Pay is unclear. Pay is structured like a toxic MLM that sells leggings. Everyone is basically slave labor for SSMs. Bosses are allowed to change your pay at any time without explanation. Management will promise pay they don't deliver on. Oh and MOST offensive of all is that your commission is dependent on you collecting on the money for the things you've sold. Sales is responsible and will be penalized if collections go over a certain number of days and all of your commission (even if other invoices were paid) gets cut in half. Political, cliquey, inhospitable environment to work in. Sexual harassment is an ongoing issue. Not to mention that they talk a big game about their products and only about a 1/3 are any good. Everything feels slapped together and nothing ever goes smoothly.

1.0
Oct 13, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Made some very good friends while employed here.

Cons

Employees are treated as completely expendable. Request for a reasonable disability accommodation was met with retaliation in the form of a significantly increased workload. PMs reprimanded for offering linguists any rate at all above the minimum. During my few years I saw massive turnover rates, TPT hires people straight out of college and works them to the point of burnout, then rinse and repeat. TPT-PTSD is a term I've heard more than once from multiple former employees. Breakdowns in the stairwells and bathrooms were very common. Many former employees, myself included, have struggled greatly in new jobs because of how toxic their TPT experience was and how the stress and anxiety linger.

1.0
Apr 29, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company as a whole will expose you to the world of localization and new technologies and equip you with great tools to understand the industry.

Cons

Terrible pay. They hire fresh grads and control, micro-manage them and do not work on their professional development. Their diversity and inclusion efforts are NULL. My department specifically had no cultural understanding nor appreciation, there was a lot of micro-management from my direct manager, nobody spoke a second language in the entire team (WE ARE A TRANSLATION COMPANY). When I asked to leave in June 2020 for a half day for a BLM/Juneteenth Protest, my direct manager gave me a guilt trip and said that we are busy and we needed to work and completely dismissed the fact that I needed some time to support my community for my own mental health and my actual performance to be better. This is very BAD for a manager to be completely oblivious to events that effect employees in the workplace. I was very disappointed with her reply. Never has my direct manager ever checked up on me to see my evaluation on my process and my growth in the company so I can have a track and a career in my department. she always wanted me to put me under her control and not allow me to grow. Everytime I ask to have a meeting regarding professional development and where I can improve and where my skills will be at better use, my direct manager would always put me back into the box of "this is what the job is and this is how we do things". Every single person who left that department had the same opinion about the management style. I also remember one time my direct manager telling me to enhance my grammar and my punctuation, knowing that English is not my first language, also while throwing excessive workload on us and not carrying for our work/life balance.

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Hello, we are sorry to hear about your unpleasant experience at TransPerfect. We strive to create a supportive and encouraging workplace environment for current and prospective employees. We are disappointed to see that this was not the case for you. Please contact glassdoor_feedback@transperfect.com if you’d like to further voice your experience. We are always open to hearing about how we can improve our processes and foster continued growth.
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