Great potential, poor execution and understanding of the workforce. - Interpreter CyraCom Employee Review

1.0
Sep 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Great Health Benefits package (individual) - Outstanding and diverse employee base - Low stress once a shift is over, work will not follow you home

Cons

- Constant shifting schedules based on business needs (24h 7 days a week environment, get ready to work holidays, night shifts, weekends with no extra compensation) - Prohibitively expensive to extend health benefits to Family - low wages across the board, compared to similar positions - Constant Monitoring and quality control - PTO and Vacation use restricted to business needs - almost non-existent opportunities for career advancement. - Very little in return of much asked (low salary, vs. PTO usage restrictions, strict rules on the call floor, tedious and constant monitoring, work during holidays, work during weekends, graveyard shifts, salary increases dependent on never being absent , required to present medical note for Any absence to be justified etc...) - Management focus on Monthly scorecards regardless of means to achieve high scores. - Corrective actions and termination are very easy to incur. An employee was terminated because he wore a baseball cap in the call floor. Corrective actions can be given as quick as 1 unjustified absence. - Restrictive and outdated dress code: business casual required on a call center.

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5.0
Feb 25, 2026
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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
Recommend
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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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