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4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,203 total reviews)
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Mark Benjamin

88% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Nuance has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,203 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nuance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Feb 6, 2014
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Pros

The only good thing and the only reason I am still here is being able to work from home. Even part time employees earn PTO (paid time off), though you use this for times when no work is available, holidays and sick leave.

Cons

Your work experience is not taken into consideration. So, if you are just starting out, this could very well be the place for you. But if you have years of experience, you will be making the same amount per line as someone fresh out of school. They even admit that to make a decent wage you need to make the incentives. One incentive is producing more lines that required in a given period. This seems to me to be possible to achieve except they make no adjustment for part time employees. And actually the incentive itself is not that great. The second incentive is based on quality score of 99.5% accuracy given every quarter. Very difficult to achieve due to points taken off for minor errors and the fact that people reviewing your work are not always right (what sounds like one number may sound like another number to someone else in a difficult speaker, etc). The company needs to remember that our work is based greatly on how good of a speaker we are editingtyping for and consideration should be given for difficult speakers, of which there are many. The company makes promises to the client for turn-around-times that are difficult to keep, hence, harassing the employees to meet these TATs. Take a look at their hierarchy pyramid. The people who actually produce the work are at the bottom and get the less pay by far. Way too many supervisors with supervisors with managers with managers, and so on and so on.

1.0
Sep 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Cons

As a Database BI developer, I was under the supervision of a chain-smoking mood-swing tyrant who treated her reports as children. At first, it seemed like a collaborative atmosphere but that must have been the image they wanted to project in the interview, I regret that I took the job. After the first couple of months, I began to feel like a rooster in a feeding pen whose head was about to be lobbed off. I had two hours to complete any given task, even if no data existed and I had to make it up. The problem was that for every two hours’ worth of work; I had to spend 4 hours on red-tape documenting everything I did. A task was considered completed if the paperwork was completed; Again, even if we had no data and I had to contrive validation testing out of thin air. I thought my opinion counted, but when asked how long I thought a task would take to complete, I got the long face and ridicule if it wasn't two hours. My advice is don't quit, wait for the layoff package. This place is a sweatshop and a nightmare.

1.0
Aug 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Work at home. Options for days and hours.

Cons

Absolutely no flexibility with scheduling. I requested to switch two days to the two days I typically don't work which has usually been fine. I go away for the two days, and find an email which states I have been terminated. No phone call from HR, no phone call from my manager asking where I was...just you've been terminated. No issues with the quality of my work just that I missed two days and I wasn't supposed to. Do they think perhaps it was a miscommunication on their part?...of course not. They looked for an excuse to get rid of a part-time employee and they found it. This is after five years of steady employment and not a single problem with the quality of my work. I had also come back after hand surgery and they could have cared less!

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