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LanguageLine Solutions

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LanguageLine Solutions reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(2,171 total reviews)

Simon Yoxon-Grant

36% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

LanguageLine Solutions has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,171 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The LanguageLine Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home. no uniform no coworkers

Cons

If you are an employee ,you get minimum pay (per your state) its next to impossible to change your schedule (although at first they insist that that is something that could be easily done about once at least a year which is absolutely no the case) even temp schedule changes are very hard to get approved. If you get hired, get ready to work in the dark! Interpreters are never notified of any changes or expectations and you usually hear about these supposed "rules" or whatnot WHEN you are in trouble for not following them. Also, everything gets blamed on interpreter.Angry clients, long waits. Bad connection.Calls dropping, calls not coming in. Lines not working, system not working, you name it, it is on us. Sure you save money on gas/car maintenance and clothes, but you don't make enough for those "savings" to be seen. Plus you need to supply your own needs as an interpreter (paper and boy will you need paper!,pens/markers for board etc) Another thing that really really upsets me is that the system just got changed and now we have more responsibilities and they claim they cannot afford an increase .I know it takes money to do a change like this magnitude, but they did not do it because they will lose money right? that's not even what upsets me, we were told we will not need computers to work the new system, but the new system is so bad that it literally logs you off on every other call making it impossible to really get those minutes in. You constantly need to be looking at a screen to make sure you are still there and available to them. We also have many issues with the new system and to report them we need access to the internet and a computer/device which they said we didn't so they wont have to reimburse the cost (we get 11 every pay check to "reimburse" us for the phone line) Some employees on other countries got transferred to another system and they did get a computer and phone and all the necessary equipment to be able to work appropriately, which just adds insult to injury.

1.0
Aug 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

working at home that's it

Cons

whatever your problem will be you won't get an answer. Clients not respectful, management not respectful. You will get a feeling of being nobody instead of feeling helpful (even if your coach give you great evaluations). I have been charged for the phone calls made under their new platform (I am talking of hundred of dollars) and no refund from them, they keep saying I am not dialing out properly but can't tell me what I am supposedly going wrong. I know I am following their process and it was overall a very bad experience. I don't recommend this company whatever your level of motivation is while you are considering this job. I quit today.

1.0
Jul 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Work from home 2. Only good thing about the new system they put everyone one - you get to see everyone is on the same boat and we are all being taking advantage of by the company. 3. They will hire you again because the turnover rate is so high. 5. You learn valuable life lessons from all sorts of calls you are getting each day.

Cons

1. Low per minute pay rate, the system will not record your minutes and good luck trying to get paid for the missing minutes. 2. No benefits and no paid holiday or sick days. You do not get paid extra for working on holidays. They will schedule you even though you send in a request specifically ask to be taken off the schedule. 2. Scheduled hours - no flexibility. They will nail you if you don't log into the system on time. No flexibility. If you have any urgent matters to attend to, they won't let you shift your work hours around. 3. Terrible management - a support request takes a month to get any reply. If you do get a reply, it solves nothing. Then you file another support request... wait for another month... 4. Quality control - senior language specialist will listen to your calls and give you harsh feedback that makes you feel total worthless. 5. Headquarter staff - I have yet to come across any pleasant staff that truly go extra miles to help interpreters. All the correspondences I received from headquarters are extremely bureaucratic. What do you expect? When you have a management basically treat its interpreters as disposable asset, the operations staff don't care your problems either.

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