-Low pay. Not competitive at all, I mean, bottom 10th percentile for what a project coordinator should be making. However, if you’re able to make it work, I think the work experience here is worth it. With that, given the high stress, huge work loads, and urban locations for every TPT office. I would really appreciate some salary flexibility here as it seems like all PC’s earn about the same regardless of location. This is a big problem and you will hear about it often if you work here.
-Work load. At times it’s overwhelming, and as soon as you feel like you’re catching up and keeping your head above water, you’ll get a new challenge dropped on you. There were many weeks I worked until 7 or 8 pm most every day of the week. I haven’t met many people here, in production, that aren’t overworked or overwhelmed, so I’d be ready to work hard if you’re interested in TPT.
-Harsh divisions. There’s not a lot of thoughtful collaboration between sales and production. Why, you ask? Because very few, of either side, know what each other do. Keep in mind that you work with sales every day, so you will find yourself explaining processes to them or vice versa. Communication, is challenging here, I know TPT is working on this, but it’s still a struggle.
-Low WFH ability. We live in a post covid world, and our WFH abilities are supremely limited here (in training you probably won’t get a lot). For those who rank higher or even other business units (TDC or Translations.com) this doesn’t seem to be an issue, but for core TPT PC’s you are not going to get to work from home much. This is particularly annoying considering commuting for this job requires you to pay for your own parking or Ubers to get to any downtown office (they give you an eco pass, but that was woefully unhelpful in my city).
-Steep learning curve. Similar to my above comment about work load. This job is very challenging in the beginning as Transperfect has such set in stone processes for everything. Not to mention that there are processes done here that aren’t done anywhere else, you will have to learn how to be a good project manager and figure out the niche TPT processes at the same time in order to be successful here.
