Pros
The fact they initially give you hope by lying to you that you'll make decent money.
Cons
- The recruiter straight up lied. Said salaries "go up to 80k" but during the final offer they said they will start hiring everyone willing at "$20 an hour" before hiring on anyone at a higher rate. For one, I was told I was going to be salaried, for two that is an extreme low ball offer for DC for any profession, especially someone translating sensitive court material. -The project managers constantly lose their papers and change like the wind. I never was contacted by anyone without a Spanish name and accent, so I assume they were all working in Puerto Rico - because they were recruiting for a DOJ project. And if they were using non-US citizens to recruit for a sensitive project like that, they would be facing SERIOUS legal trouble. Right? Who am I kidding, they probably don't care. They all called at weird hours like 8-10 PM anyways, who works those hours in the US? I would get contacted by 5 different PMs who all had no idea what documents I submitted and then was called one last time by a woman who curtly snapped at me that we would go over this one last time, "so this doesn't happen again." That's pretty arrogant and condescending for someone trying to get me to work for just over what a cashier at Aldi's makes. -The worst part is they all sound like they're calling on 1997 Nokia cell phones. Could never understand a word any of them said but they insisted on calling and not sending emails. -Boris (or Ellen, depending on whether they need to win contracts set aside for small women-owned businesses) Lifschutz owns this company as well as FCI multiple services, who repeatedly sends out emails seeking freelancers to work for 2 cents a word for most European languages that anyone else would pay 10-12 for. Unreal.