BLEND Reviews

3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(97 total reviews)

Yair Tal

56% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

BLEND has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 97 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BLEND employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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97 reviews
1.0
18 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible payments, used to provide a variety of translations, translations used to be made by humans (not anymore, going MTPE)

Cons

One Hour Translation used to be a great company. It relied for years on an initial set of translators who provided free work (reviews) in exchange for getting a priority access to projects. Some of use spent more than 1.000 hours doing those reviews. Then, a year ago, One Hour Translation decided to recaculate unilaterally those priority points, in a very obscure way. This recalculation was likely meant to benefit a new category of translators (aka Elite... people committing to translate only for OHT and provide at least 2.000 words a day. You get it, only novice translators can commit to that). As a consequence, veteran translators who spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours reviewing were left with no work. The deal was: translators do unpaid reviews, counterpart is having priority access to translations. Translators complied with their part, One Hour Translations decided not to comply anymore with its part of the deal. It's likely that a class action will soon take place against OHT.

1.0
3 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Yes. They pay on request.

Cons

If a customer complains, even if the customer may be wrong, you don't get a chance to justify your actions. Also, you may get reviewed and again you don't get a chance to comment. As soon as you get one bad review, you are dropped.... and more... you get a standard email stating "we have advised you multiple times on the quality of your projects"... yet you are seeing this for the first time!!! On top of paying one third of what other companies pay. Translators don't need this. I used to think they were great, but the truth is that they are taking jobs away from other GOOD translation companies and thus from us translators. People even use them for legal documents, but these documents will many times not even be approved by a court of law, because OHT cannot legally sign off on a document. It needs Notary sign-off or a Lawyer.

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