It made me want to die. - OPI (Over the Phone Spanish Interpreter) CyraCom Employee Review

2.0
Oct 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

•You learn a lot about many subjects. •On the job training. •The job is easy, relatively, depending on how your mind works. •Some of your coworkers are amazing people with kind and loving hearts. •There is at least one good manager, (Brenda Servin). •The pay is decent if you have bills to pay. •You pick your initial schedule. •Overtime is available. •Health benefits are available after 3 months.

Cons

•Trainers act shady, as in they don't tell you or teach you exactly how things work and function. •Shrinkage hurts your bonus and overall performance, meaning you could be an amazing interpreter but if you have any sort of personal thing to do at all, including bowel movements or urination, your "performance" goes down the drain. •If you have a scheduled break but a call goes into your break it hurts your Shrinkage, it's not even your fault, you're doing your job. •You feel like you can't talk to anyone other than the customers. •Loneliness. •You're a machine to them, not an individual. •Very few and very short breaks. •You can't grow in the company until you've been there a certain amount of time. Even if you show potential until then. •The job is repetitive, you do it like walking or breathing, so at times you have a lot of time to think, which can be bad. •Can't change your schedule for 6 months. Unless there's a life or death situation, and even then you have to bring proof.

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Pros

Flexible working hours. Will accommodate weekends schedule.

Cons

High call volume from different industries, which requires a broad knowledge from an interpreter.

5.0
Dec 5, 2025
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Pros

In all of my professional career, the IT work here is the most laid back I have ever been with. Sadly, the fun was short-lived after we were sold out when the company was acquired by its rival Propio. They laid off the entire IT folks, dismantling this competition, retaining only less than ten from the whole organization. But it was a pleasure while it lasted. Too bad because their folks were easy going and management is mediocre but I learned a lot, plus it was what I needed in my situation, where I had to multitask working while taking care of personal matters, so it was a bonus.

Cons

Nothing really complicates my tenure here except some projects are really slow in implementation, lacking clear requirements and at some point I was shoved into something where there was really no discussion at all about a project and you just have to dig into it but I have experience so it was no sweat for me at all. There was also a point where I heard a lie about a project being complete but when I started working on it I just realized it was not even started at all and the other is not even deployed or existing so there you go I just had to keep silent and work on completing it. Plus Propio conned us by giving us false hope into thinking we get severance pay but it is not really severance pay instead they just tapped into the our state unemployment benefit and made it look like it is a severance pay. Unemployment benefit is not severance pay.

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