WelocalizeReviews of welocalize.com

I applied for the “Project Lynx - Audio Recording Transcriber - Turkish” role at Welocalize (Welo Data) and successfully completed multiple assessment stages, including language, culture, and marketing-related evaluations, as well as the AI interview. As part of the process, I was required to submit sensitive personal information, including my ID number and photos of my ID (front and back), which I completed without any issues. However, during the Tax Verification stage, when I entered my ID number as instructed in the guidelines, I received the following error: “Thank you for your interest in Welo Data. Unfortunately, we are unable to proceed with your application at this time.” I created a support ticket and, starting from March 2, 2026, I had multiple email exchanges with M. P. (Welocalize Talent). They requested my ID photo again, which I provided, but there has been no progress since then. The only response I keep receiving is: “Our internal team is actively working on investigating and resolving this issue. At this stage, no action is required from your side. We will update you as soon as the issue is fixed or if any additional information is needed.” Even when I followed up again on April 2, 2026, I received the exact same response. I also suggested possible solutions and requested a manual tax verification, but no action has been taken. Although resolving the issue manually would have been possible, this has been ignored. It is clear that the fact that the issue has not been resolved for over a month is not of much concern to them. As a result, I am unable to start the project even though it is active. If there is a known issue in this process, why are candidates asked to submit and process sensitive personal data such as ID information and photos? This experience has been frustrating, time-consuming, and lacks transparency.

scam all that assessment but after you take the test and go to the next section it will appear as "application failed" like how? how did i even fail the assessment when i made sure that i ensure correct answers before submitting!

I was invited to apply to a job, based on my location and resume. When I did apply, the site told me I was not able to apply to the job. I send an email to support to know what went wrong. After a week I recieved as a reply a basic rejection letter??? I contacted support once more, asking if they could please answer my question, as I was not even able to apply to the job. Response in short: " We have no idea, and blocken your account. You can't reply on jobs in the future. Never seen such an unprofessional company

After 1 hour exam, they declares I've failed. But the exam was clean, I can challenge with my exam.

These people are SCAMMERS. BE CAREFUL. I was approached by a person called Brett Erickson regarding a translation project (50 pdf pages worth 2,000 Euros). I had been approached by Welocalize a couple years earlier about a position in the company, so I didn't really consider that this project could be a scam. A couple of weeks into the project I asked this person to send me his corporate email (until that time he was only sending me emails from his personal gmail account). He gave some reason why he couldn't do it, which of course I didn't believe. It was at this time that I started to get suspicious. So, I tried calling at least four of the company's offices (London, New York, Thessaloniki, Italy) and no one would answer the telephone (red flag). We would also communicate via WhatApp, where he sent me a picture of himself driving through the English countryside, a picture of him at the airport before his trip to the USA, a picture of hism driving through the USA countryside (red flags). As I dug deeper, I finally found this webpage where other people posted their problems (some people also had been assigned a similar project to my own: 50 pages, 2000 Euros). I sent him the link to his gmail account, and called him out on this problem. Miraculously, from that point forward, I couldn't send him any other emails. They would always return back to him. I stopped all communication with him and demand that he first pay me and then he would get his translation. Obviously, he never contacted me again, because, from what I have understood, all this company wants you to do is register or subscribe to them at a cost. THAT'S THE SCAM. They dangle (in my case) a translation project. You think that you will get paid but then they say first register and subscribe (which you do at a cost. Thankfully, in my case it never reached that point. I just lost about 2 weeks of my time. GOOD LUCK everyone!!!

Welo Data calls it an “exam,” but it clearly functions as job training. After you finish the exam, there is no training afterward, the exam is the training. 4+ hours unpaid.

I spent over six hours across two days taking this exam, putting in maximum effort and paying attention to every single detail. However, despite following the guidelines with extreme care, I did not pass. The evaluation criteria are so incredibly strict and specific that the entire process feels designed to make you fail, rather than to actually test your skills. It is very disappointing to dedicate so much professional time to such a difficult and opaque process without any positive outcome. The difficulty level is simply unrealistic

Completely unprofessional and disorganized. They just make you waste your time with ridiculous test tasks and end your contract for no reason. You can't withdraw funds below a certain amount and the support team doesn't help.