Lionbridge reviews

I initially accepted a flexible telecommuting position with this company, thinking it would be the perfect fit to supplement my income. Think again. A 4 hour a day job quickly became a 7 hour a day job, having to respond to emails, study training materials, and be subjected to constant interrogation of you work performance. All of this unpaid, and on your time, as the company did not allow admin time. Shifting guidelines and criteria led to confusion regarding expected goals. In the end, work was terminated with no specific reason given, other than saying ´it was a combination of things, nothing specific´.

The pay is nowhere near market value (salary.com: Test Engineer/Test Technician). At $11 /hr, the kind of people they can get are either incredibly stupid (which decreases the morale and optimistic attitudes of other employees), or they are unable to find any other job, so they feel trapped in the first place. The entire company is very immature, and very political. Management is extremely involved in everything, but there is no consistency to the management, so often, people will feel that they can't take time off or work on something special because the form to use is not clear. One person i wrote up for sleeping on the job was allowed to continue working simply because the form i used for the formal write-up was lost, and no one allowed me to keep a copy of it. One employee was unable to attend his father's funeral because HR lost his employee paperwork and his time off request was denied. One employee did not receive a final paycheck because HR removed him from payroll before the payroll was processed, and then demanded that he reapply for the job he left so he could get his final check.