flitto.comReviews of flitto.com

The management is terrible. Several colleagues have been dismissed by the company without reasonable motives and even with accusations of plagiarism or unfair work without evidence. Furthermore, whenever they decide you have (again, without proof) violated their guidelines and terms of use, they just retain all your gains (which are "paid" in points, not in actual currency). This basically makes you work for free until they decide monocratically whether you are worth the payment or not. The management team should be more transparent whenever they decided to dismiss an employer, in addition to granting at least a percentage of their work, not retaining all of the points (again, this makes us work for free). Not to mention that the system of points itself is problematic and very underpaid in the translation industry.

Flitto is a Korea-based, "global crowdsourcing translation platform, where you can request translations as you need or become a translator if you can speak more than one language." Being bilingual in German and English, I signed up as a translator and went through two rounds of (unpaid) tests. Then I signed up for my first translation job, which was just a bunch of separate lines (ten, to be precise). I submitted - and IMMEDIATELY got a "response", i.e. some bot seemingly default-responded: "Did not comply with the guide Entered an answer that is completely irrelevant to the question Too many incorrect answers Copied machine translation word for word" So, here's the thing: 1) there was nothing to "comply with" - those were ten separate lines without much complexity. Don't play the "guide" card; 2) At NO point did I provide an "answer " (i.e. provide a translation) that was irrelevant to the question/source text - let alone "completely"! I am a professional translator and know how to do my job! (besides: get your jargon right - translators are no school kids, we provide translations, not "answers"; 3) "Too many incorrect answers" - I'd venture to claim: no; and 4) "Copied machine translation word for word" - HOW DARE YOU!?? I translated manually and without any help from a "machine"!!! Get your facts straight before such accusations! And then it is of course impossible to get in touch with any human. Translators: Do NOT work with them! It is a waste of time. They have no clue!