Gengo Reviews
Updated Jan 21, 2021
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Pros
"Translator-friendly platform and support, always on time payments, grate range of subjects to work on (perfect to get experienced)" (in 14 reviews)
"You can work from home, in my language pair they give you enough time to complete the job, pay is ok" (in 10 reviews)
Cons
"translations will be reviewed by terrible reviewers and the system is harsh too" (in 19 reviews)
"Not so many jobs (depends on your language pair though)" (in 12 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Helpful (1)
Pros
People can translate at home
Cons
There are only few jobs
- Helpful (1)
Pros
* You can choose to work whenever you want at wherever you want.
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.
- Helpful (16)
"A poorly managed company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Gengo full-time for more than a year
Pros
- Motivated, smart co-workers who are passionate about what they do - Nice location in Tokyo - Good concept, easy to get behind
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
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"If you have good foreign language skills in a language pair they need,, it's easy to get work with them."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Gengo
Pros
Great flexibility, work from home, can take time off whenever you want. If you do good work consistently, customers will often choose you as a "favorite" translator, which means you get first crack at their assignments. I find their ratings system (your "grade" on your work) to be very fair on the whole. The company, of course, loves diversity: its translators work all over the world. So many languages, so many cultures! This company is also a reliable way to get the experience needed to do other translation work.
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.
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"graphic design"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
RecommendsApproves of CEOI worked at Gengo
Pros
The art director is very nice and professional.
Cons
There was no cons during the time I worked there.
- Helpful (1)
Pros
You can work anytime you have spare time from home.
Cons
Not enough tasks and kind of hard to grab a job on the dashboard.
Continue reading Pros
Work from home, get to work when you want. Good system built for translating.
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.
Pros
Flexible schedule, wide range of articles
Cons
Low salary, biased peer reviewers
"Great company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Gengo part-time
Pros
Flexible with time, the workload is completely dependent on the individual
Cons
The translation jobs are extremely difficult to come by even with an RSS feeder
"Great place to learn, best avoided for high skill professionals"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Diversity & Inclusion★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Gengo full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Talented team that is eager to learn, Complex platform which provides interesting challenges, Good work life balance.
Cons
Management consist of a very specific type of person, diversity is a value for lower level employees but not management. Asking questions can be perceived as an aggressive action towards the company. Low salaries for operations and sales.
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