College Kids Playing House - Senior Project Manager TransPerfect Employee Review

1.0
13 Jul 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The vibe is young, so it’s easy to make friends with your colleagues. The company is good for people who don’t have a lot of ambition and prefers to get promoted based on seniority (versus performance).

Cons

Transperfect's strategy is to recruit newly young grads who work hard for little money. The retention rate is super low and turnover rate is high with people working at the company for less than 1-2 years. The company is filled with young 25 year old "managers" who get their senior titles if they manage to stick around because there is no one else to manage junior PMs, so most managers lack competency as a manager. The work that you do as a project manager is not technical at all, so you won't get any technical skills out of this job. On a day to day basis, PMs are going through 200 plus emails a day explaining instructions to translators and how to “clear your cache” on Chrome. Your work is based off of how much revenue you make for the company on a monthly basis. When it comes down to it, Transperfect looks to see how much money you can make for the company and is not a company that will value you as an employee. This is why their meek strategy of targeting recent grads work because they would rather keep hiring cheaper labor than to invest and retain its existing workforce.

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5.0
13 Apr 2026
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Pros

Pleasant environment here. Everyone is friendly and very organized

Cons

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2.0
27 May 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provides strong opportunities for travel, especially around conferences. The company makes a strong effort to onboard and support new employees and clients. There are many great colleagues to connect with and learn from.

Cons

My experience was that leadership lacked clear direction and timely decision-making. The culture felt transactional, with employee retention and development taking a back seat to short-term financial performance.

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