iSoftStone Reviews

Pros

They provide the opportunity for a great work-life balance in that you can work from home setting your own hours. If you enjoy linguistic challenges, the work can include transcribing not only people with non-native English accents, but speaking at a fast pace about places in countries like India, or giving names of Bollywood songs in Hindi and you are expected to Google these and transcribe them accurately. For me this was an enjoyable challenge, though it may not be to everyone's taste.

Cons

They provide a 'contract' but if the work runs out before the end of the contract period, too bad. They expect you to start work before you have received the contract and agreed to the conditions. Some of the work that you have to transcribe is sexually explicit, bordering on pornographic, but there is no forewarning of this. If you raise this as an issue you are told it is 'part of the job'. You are paid according to meeting a set number of utterances to be transcribed, but you are not told that when you receive a task containing, for example, 200 utterances that 5 of those may be considered 'golden' utterances and untranscribable. These are not counted towards your tally, but you don't know this until you receive a lower rate of pay than you were expecting at the end of the project. They don't supply enough work for you to meet the contract conditions unless you keep reminding them that you need more work, so you need to be on your toes about that. You need to keep your own careful records of tasks completed as they don't routinely provide evidence of that when they pay you. They had missed 3 tasks that I sent so I had to raise this with them to receive my money for those tasks.

Pros

Great Communication! Bai Shen who is the IT person is very responsive and helpful. it seems whenever I need to contact him it's urgent, for me, and Shen responds right away! The staff is friendly, available, and knowledgable.

Cons

The 401k doesn't start until 3 months in, and there is no paid time off.

Pros

Teammates are smart and nice

Cons

I was working at another company, the HR contacted me about switching job, but they decreased my salary after I resigned from the previous job. Still remember my last day there, the manager was laughing at me, and he seemed very proud of his strategy for cheating people.

Pros

Good place to work, Have great office culture.

Cons

There was absolutely no support given to find another gig, after one assignment ended (which ended after more than 2 years).

Pros

Agile, flexible consulting and delivery organization. Passionate, creative, smart leadership team. Long-standing partnerships with Fortune 1000 customers. Opportunities to learn, grow and assume new responsibilities. Dual-shore delivery capabilities with US and Asia delivery centers.

Cons

Competes with global consulting and systems integrator companies with substantial scale and resources.