translate plus Reviews

3.2

45% would recommend to a friend

(117 total reviews)

51% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

translate plus has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 117 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The translate plus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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117 reviews
1.0
30 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to work with big clients and it is true that you learn a lot about the industry. Training is provided and their intranet is very well organised and intuitive.

Cons

Everything else. This is a company that does not care for their employees, the workload is absolutely insane, they don't appreciate your work and you are never praised for doing a good ob. However, they will always find where you made the tiniest mistake to use that against you and it will, of course, negatively affect our promotion plan. If you are lucky enouogh, your promotion will be delayed a couple of months, but they night just freeze your progression for the time being until further notice. We have to newgotiate the prices with the linguists to an embarrasing rate, it is embarrassing. People work extra time and this is not paid. You will be lucky if they let you come in a bit later another day. After you stayed an extra 5 unpaid hours. This is NO JOKE, people work over time every single day, it is ridiculous. Not to mention the breaks project managers have to skip if they want to leave at a decent time (which is always after your working hours anyway). Team managers just dump projects on you no matter what you have told them your availability is and then they just forget about you, the project now becomes your problem, and it is only yours. Deadlines are always tight and rush jobs come in constantly. Sales managers are on you all the time, they won't stop bugging you and their briefs are normally incomplete. The benefits they offer are minimum and not good in general. The Monday breakfast consists of a few bakery trays for over 100 people in the offie, you would be lucky if you manage to get some crumbs. The other project managers were, generally speaking, very helpful and nice, but because of the stress and workload you just don't get a chance to socialise with your colleagues or have a chat, because there is always something to do. They just need like 5 more new teams, they say they are growing, but there are people constantly leaving, which means there is more work and less people each time. Seriously, this company is really crap and I really hope this review helps you go and look elsewhere, it is just not worth it. People quitted their jobs within weeks and months of starting, the staff turnaround is crazy.

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translate plus Response
3y
At translate plus we are open to constructive feedback and would advise anyone to discuss it with us while they are working for us. This way we can help to address any challenges together. There have been a lot of positive changes over the years, e.g. working from home arrangements, change in management, office move, monthly all hands meetings, creation of employee committees, overhaul of employment benefits, and much more. We would like to encourage anybody to read our company page for more information and to get in touch to speak to us if you have any questions.
1.0
3 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. You get to make friends with the other employees for sharing miserable everyday life 2. You learn a lot because nobody is going to be there to help you so it's good to get a job in a real company 3. When you leave you get your life back I thought I was going crazy, I thought I was the problem (CHALLENGE AS YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THE P WORD)! But then I started my new job and now I AM A HAPPY HUMAN BEING

Cons

1. Most of PMs are OVERWHELMED with clients (dear tp, you can't have someone with 90 clients and someone with 3 just because they're friends with management or just cheeky) 2. TP has just been bought by another company and this means more clients for the same (or less, see point 3) amount of staff - just unbearable 3. Highest turnover ever. By the time a newcomer is "trained" (if you can call looking at power point slides a training) and understands how things work in there, they run away (of course!) for a more human, better paid and rewarding job and people staying get all their clients (see point 1) 3b. They don't even try to replace the leavers - even when they have the month notice.. why? because it's all about SAVING MONEY 4. Management (Team managers + Operation managers) are not trained to be so. They just happen to stay longer of the rest of the people who wisely run away before being stuck with promotions 4b. Management (Team managers + Operation managers) have miserable lives and expect everyone below them to have the same 5. Working time is 9-5.30 with 30 mins of flexibility. But if you arrive at 9 and leave at 5.30 (as you are supposed to be and because that's what you paid for), you'll get many raised eyebrows (oh, is he/she leaving already, what a shock! they don't want to do any volunteering for tp, how weird!) 6. OVERTIME IS NOT PAID AND YOU ARE EXPECTED TO STAY LONGER JUST BECAUSE POINT 4b+5 7. You leave (when you manage) the office and you are still raging and this takes all your energies away 8. There's this internal procedure of INTERNAL CHECKS (one of those crazy things promised to clients) basically PMS have to check EVERY translation when it's back from a linguist.... and there is just NO TIME for that! Also, not all languages are spoken in the office, so why do you keep lying to clients saying we check everything?? there used to be INHOUSE QA checkers back in the days with awful basic salaries of 18k pa - I know, what a joke! - and TEMPORARY CONTRACTS, but it was just too easy to keep/renew them, let's just make the PMs DO EVERYTHING! 9.. The office is in a basement with NO AIR and NO WINDOWS (=no REAL LIGHT) and it's not healthy to spend that amount of time underground in front of outdated softwares

1.0
2 Nov 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Nice Projet Managers to work with (when they stay more a couple of weeks)

Cons

- After the first week you will never work an 8-9 hour day again. Overtime can reach crazy amount of hours, most weeks average 50-60 hours, but salary doe not reflect this... You are paid with gratefulness at best. - Work/Life balance is a myth. - To the company all employees are merely cogs in a machine, most employees do not matter to management. - Team managers are of no support AT ALL, especially when you stay later and they are long gone.

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translate plus Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback. We are disappointed to hear that you are only voicing your concerns after you have left the company. The work of a project manager always carries a certain pressure, as translation is a deadline-driven world, but this is exactly one of the things that makes the job exciting. We do not wish for anybody to work regular overtime. We encourage anybody who feels that they don’t have a choice but to work overtime in order to get their work done to speak to their manager or HR and we will be happy to sit together and to find a solution. We also encourage anybody to speak to our training officer who can provide very useful time management and other training.
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