Lingo24 was wonderful until it was taken over by Unbabel in 2022 - Freelance Translator Lingo24 Employee Review

5.0
3 Jun 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Impeccable quality of translations. I worked with them for 15 years full-time as a freelance linguist at a regular pay of £28/$31 per hour - and often earned double the rate. I never had any problems with Lingo24 and miss them very much. There were always fast responses by friendly and helpful project managers, easy communication via PMs with the clients, great service to both customers and freelancers, well thought-through working processes, and efficient quality control. Now all gone.

Cons

Since the acquisition by Unbabel in 2022, sadly this excellent company has been gradually destroyed by the new owners who pay officially "up to $18 per hour" and effectively something like $6 (! horrific, isn't it), and they expect their editors to fix one page of bad machine translation in 2 (two!) minutes - while old Lingo24 paid us 20 (twenty) minutes for the same work and gave us plenty of extra time for research and double-checking.

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1.0
1 Jun 2022
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Pros

I'm sorry. no plus no understanding

Cons

I translated to lingo24 but they didn't pay my fee. I'm so sorry, I came across an unexpected situation.

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Lingo24 Response
4y
Hello, we’re sorry to hear you are unhappy with your interaction with Lingo24. We indeed had a technical issue at the bank when we performed our last payment run; however, all payments have gone through and all our invoices have been paid with only a small delay. If you think we still owe you money, could you get in touch with translatorinfo@lingo24.com? Our Vendor Managers will help sort the situation.
5.0
19 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great tight knit team of professionals

Cons

Covid forced the original office to be closed

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