Lionbridge reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(2,699 total reviews)
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Sebastian Bretschneider

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55% positive business outlook

Lionbridge has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,699 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lionbridge employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home. Also, meant to be a flexible job, which I found that it wasn't due to availability of jobs.

Cons

Salary - very low, because they ask you to work minimum hours up to their, very strict standard, but within very strict time limits. As one can imagine, if you want something of a very high standard, you have to invest either time or money or both. They don't allow it. So the end result is that one of you lose out. Also, the availability of jobs were very random and often during the anti-social hours.

3.0
Sep 22, 2018

Awkward hours

Recommend
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Pros

Work from home Pay is ok .

Cons

Not enough time alotted to do good quality work. Unpaid training time. I really enjoyed the job at first and still enjoy the actual work but after a few months a pattern developed; Most of the work comes up late at night but is completely random and, as a parent, this is not really the flexible work that was advertised. You have to be at the beck and call of lionbridge or you can't do enough hours each week. Tasks start appearing just as you're beginning the kids dinner and bedtimes or first thing in the morning only to vanish when you finally manage to sit down at your PC. I arranged extra childcare when I got the job but almost no work comes up during school hours in the UK. The guidelines are not clear in all circumstances and are often contradictory. They say they want your insight then say your insight was wrong. They say focus on quality then wiped 10 hours work off my timesheet (which is an archaic system) as it took too long to produce the quality work They demand. I have a slightly slow connection and a disability which affects my hands which makes it hard to meet time requirements. They dont allow time to check your work before you submit. I have had drastically varying quality scores and no real indication what was wrong except that I had given more weighting to some aspect of a task that the person who did the quality scoring. Or I had found something in my research that the scorer had not mentioned. having to second guess what other people think is very difficult. Emails asking for support go ignored. I have read a lot about sudden terminations and frankly the anxiety is starting to outweigh the pay.

2.0
Jun 12, 2018

Project Coordinator

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Recommend
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Pros

Flexi hours Great relation with customer

Cons

Sadly i had very bad experience as working environment was lacking team work. There is hardly any training and no incentives given. The morale in my office were very low and most people have left or currently job searching. Some people complained about mental health issues related to work. HR does little to support the staff. Management have no people skills. Wages are below average.

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Lionbridge Response
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It's unfortunate you've had a poor experience. Your team works on very important customer projects. HR will engage with the broader team in Bristol - Lionbridge CEO
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