Vantaggi
The office is in a very good location. They have fruit and coffee, tea, etc but that’s pretty standard in most big companies. They have a ticket restaurant that is deducted from your salary.
Svantaggi
Everything else. They hire very young people with no experience cause they will accept those salaries and might think the stress levels and working overtime all the time are commonplace in corporate. Maybe as a stepping stone if you’re like 22 you can do this for a year so it looks good on your resume. But they’re understaffed, so the amount of work is ridiculous and you’re told the job is stressful and you should be able to manage stress. They told me “it will only get worse so if you cannot handle it now it’s not for you”. It’s not about handling anything, I just don’t think you should be expected to work overtime (unpaid, of course) as a standard practice. Also the LQA team is even more understaffed and the communication between departments is very bad. They don’t even have clear guidelines in place and they keep changing them even when they weren’t aligned to begin with. You’re supposed to waste a lot of time copying information manually into excel even though they automated some stuff, so it’s a waste of time. THE WAGES ARE SO LOW. Like, they keep saying we have so much responsibility but don’t pay us accordingly. They make us negotiate rates with vendors to pay them as little as possible so it’s not surprising. Also there’s this quality management system which makes the PM responsible for virtually any mistake along with the person who made it cause you’re supposed to check all the deliverables thoroughly even though you might have to deliver 7 jobs on the same day. Then you have to write an essay about it. I got scolded once cause I wasn’t stressed enough. They said I didn’t have the right personality for this job. Sales over promise and give impossible deadlines and if it’s not possible to make them you’re supposed to stay overtime so someone in another time zone can finish the job. They did not like it cause once I said that it seemed that the project wouldn’t be on time so I was going to inform sales. You’re supposed to do everything to deliver but somehow if your manager thinks it’s okay then yes, you can ask for an extension. But they need to approve first, so much micromanagement. At some point they were even telling me how to write an email. I guess they’re used to recent graduates but I’m sure even they can write an email. Come on now. I heard someone in the team had taken a 10 month sick leave due to burnout. There’s very little progression, I know some ppl who were there for 4-5 years and were still PC and only recently got promoted to PM. The salaries are a joke compared to any other PM anywhere. It’s entry level but you’re expected to have so much responsibility. Also they LIE to their clients they even have a system to hide any mention to machine translation in certain deliverables cause they don’t tell clients they’re using post editing instead of human translation. I am sorry but that should count as a scam, as they’re charging clients as if it were human translation from scratch.