Gengo Reviews

Cons

There are only few jobs

Cons

* Nearly not enough work to be even considered to be a side-job. Only think of working for them as a translator if you are already making enough money to pay your rent.

Cons

- Unfortunate management - mostly nice people, but inexperienced and not uniformly skilled to manage
- COO is the single most terrible person I've ever worked with in my professional career before or since
- Often there's a mismatch between the strengths of the service and customers sold, leading to operational headaches
- Dev resources go to increasing sales, usually not improving core platform, leaving Operations teams with not enough tools to do their jobs well
- Lack of diversity in leadership, especially gender

Cons

One downside is the fact that the pay is not great. However, they do all the work getting the jobs. You may also need to keep your schedule very loose; jobs come in at all hours of the day or night. The customer who needs the quick translation could be anywhere in the world, in any time zone. I often work in the middle of the night.

Cons

There was no cons during the time I worked there.

Cons

Not enough tasks and kind of hard to grab a job on the dashboard.

Cons

There were not a lot of jobs available. You sometimes had to wait a few days before jumping on the first thing that came up.

Cons

- Low rates (very low)
- Not too many clients
- Reviewers translate for Gengo as well (while they shouldn't, they should just review) and get very little money for that. Therefore, they have a clear incentive to dismiss translators' work (the fewer translators in their language pair, the better: more jobs available for them in their translators' role).
- Reviewers rule: their reviews can't be appealed.

Cons

Really difficult to consistently click through to get jobs. Total wages pm were between USD 20 - 50.

Cons

- Business outlook is still very uncertain. This is a company that tried to "disrupt" the translation industry with barely anyone actually knowing what professional translation is. This has led to perennial issues that management does not understand how to tackle.

- The culture is VERY defensive. Management in general cannot handle criticism and the company as a whole likes to celebrate what would be considered minor achievements in other similar companies.

- Salaries seem to be very unequal. Do not rely on potential salary raises down the line as the company will try to give you unwanted stock options instead

- Benefits are minimal. Basically a mix of bare minimum legal requirements in Japan (e.g. 10 vacation days per year) with a US touch (the occasional free lunch).