Minimum Wage for Maximum Skill - Translator CyraCom Employee Review

1.0
Jun 29, 2025
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Pros

Not far from the seven train

Cons

Working for CyraCom in New York City was deeply disappointing. Despite being in one of the most expensive cities on the planet, they pay interpreters—who perform skilled, knowledge-based work—the absolute minimum wage. It’s insulting, especially when you consider that bodega workers and Uber drivers in NYC regularly earn twice as much. The company seems completely disconnected from the cost of living and the value of professional linguistic skills. There’s no incentive to stay, no career progression, and certainly no financial recognition of the mental and emotional labor required for the job. Management is indifferent, turnover is high, and morale is consistently low. If you expect to be treated like a professional or earn a livable wage, look elsewhere. This job might suit someone temporarily trying to get by—but if you’re serious about your career or surviving in NYC, CyraCom is not the place to do it.

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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
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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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