Pluspunten
Working with like-minded people from the industry has been an absolute pleasure. It is rare to come across people who are working in the same environment and yet still manage to muster up the energy day after day to put themselves through the same toxicity.
Minpunten
- Senior management is totally out of touch with the remainder of the Lilt workforce. Opinions are not listened to at all and when you make a suggestion, it is quashed immediately or you are pigeon-holed as a disruptor, something modern day start-ups almost always purport to support people doing. - Bullyish working culture. Senior management looks down on people who are not quite as well-established within the company and often bully them into submission when it comes to working processes, which are in desperate need of refinement. - Due a total lack of organisation, Lilt employees often end up in situations where they are taking on heightened levels of responsibility for things that are not part of their job description. Despite putting in hours of their working day to ensure that all the cogs are turning - again for most of which people are not responsible - employees often end up being reprimanded for their efforts as opposed to having them acknowledged as such; especially when you think about the fact that Lilt is experiencing an extreme phase of growth in such short turnarounds. - Massive clash of cultures between US and European teams. There is no synergy between American and European teams because there is not a platform on which healthy discourse can take place surrounding the subject of efficient working processes. - Workloads are often unmanageable due to overpromising. Lilt is a proprietary translation tool that needs to be sold to clients with certain expectations first needing to be met before we commence work. Sales teams seem to be lying through their teeth about what we are able to offer within a certain time frame, and Production teams are then expected to manage said expectations, again being reprimanded when we make it clear to senior managers that we cannot be promising things to clients that we are unable to truly adhere to. - Product updates are often made without Production teams in mind. Production teams often inform Product of things that need to be changed in the tool - because many Lilt employees are also former translation professionals themselves - and messages often go unacknowledged or are shunned by senior managers within minutes of posting. - At Lilt, you are favoured if you keep your mouth shut and don't say anything to anyone; especially not to those people who would do absolutely anything to propel themselves and their careers forward. - Lilt has some questionable clients, which, again, seems to suggest they are running after profit instead of valuing the wellbeing of their own employees. There are LGBTQ+ employees at Lilt, for example, so why willingly go into business with a client that openly states on their website that they do not support such lifestyles?
