Gengo Reviews

Cons

Their GoCheck review system is ideal in design but fails because the "reviewers" that check the translation aren't really verified or validated themselves and make more than plenty of mistakes, which isn't just "being human" like Gengo tries to claim. When you ask for a re-review, most of the time, they'll ignore you or just reiterate the original explanation, and without a third party to re-review the content, it just becomes a waste of time. The "suggestions" the reviewer gave in my language have always been inconsistent, and hilariously full of grammatical errors & typos. If you argue that, they'll just ignore you. This also causes the "glossary" to be full of errors, typos, and mistranslations as well, which does not get fixed, and people follow that glossary only to repeat the same mistakes. Until they make sure that their "reviewers" are top-notch who are constantly verified to prove themselves, the whole system falls down, and the scoring/reasoning is so inconsistent that it never serves its purpose. Such failure is proven by the fact that when I take edit jobs, most of the translations are so bad that they're worse than Google Translate. If GoCheck was really working, then it should have weeded those bad translators out, but they can't, and they won't. The rates are low, lower than those of most translation agencies, BUT they have a nice feature where the system will automatically pad the price if the project has been around a while and no one's taken it. The time that we're given for projects is... Unrealistic.

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

- 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

* 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

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

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

Cons

There was no cons during the time I worked there.

Cons

There are only few jobs

Cons

Not many jobs available. They should work on their advertising,

Cons

There were no annual salary increases and no benefits.