Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Netflix Hermes test
Poster: CHAITALI21
Post title: Hermes TEST is closed for now.
The Netflix/ Hermes Test has been closed now.
Even I had taken the test sometime in 2016 for Hindi language. I also wanted to take the test in Bengali language but surprisingly they don't have the language in their list, though Netflix has quite some Bengali movies in the Movie list.
[quote]Magdalena Adamus wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised that no one have started this topic yet.
I was wondering who of you took the test and, more importantly, who already got their results? In my case 10 days have not passed yet, but from what I know from other people, this is definitely going to be longer. I really blame all the news portals, that started shouting 'Netflix is going to pay USERS for translation and they'll give you bazzillion of dollars for a minute!', which encourage thousands of people with no experience to take the test (and therefore swamp revisers with tones of additional work).
Anyway, I'm not entirely happy about how my test went, especially because I got the notorious American football video, which was way out of my specialty scope and the vocabulary was awful. Also italicizing function was not working nor in my case nor in anybody's else, so I'm silently hoping that they will notice that and not take that into account when evaluating.
What is also bothering me is that I took the test even before my clients started contacting me about it, so I registered as individual translator (with hope of being able to work with Netflix directly). Now I'm not able to add my clients anywhere and I'm afraid that with this huge load of tests, Netflix is going to prioritize assessing their vendors' candidates first. [/quote]
Topic: Netflix Hermes test
Poster: CHAITALI21
Post title: Hermes TEST is closed for now.
The Netflix/ Hermes Test has been closed now.
Even I had taken the test sometime in 2016 for Hindi language. I also wanted to take the test in Bengali language but surprisingly they don't have the language in their list, though Netflix has quite some Bengali movies in the Movie list.
[quote]Magdalena Adamus wrote:
I'm genuinely surprised that no one have started this topic yet.
I was wondering who of you took the test and, more importantly, who already got their results? In my case 10 days have not passed yet, but from what I know from other people, this is definitely going to be longer. I really blame all the news portals, that started shouting 'Netflix is going to pay USERS for translation and they'll give you bazzillion of dollars for a minute!', which encourage thousands of people with no experience to take the test (and therefore swamp revisers with tones of additional work).
Anyway, I'm not entirely happy about how my test went, especially because I got the notorious American football video, which was way out of my specialty scope and the vocabulary was awful. Also italicizing function was not working nor in my case nor in anybody's else, so I'm silently hoping that they will notice that and not take that into account when evaluating.
What is also bothering me is that I took the test even before my clients started contacting me about it, so I registered as individual translator (with hope of being able to work with Netflix directly). Now I'm not able to add my clients anywhere and I'm afraid that with this huge load of tests, Netflix is going to prioritize assessing their vendors' candidates first. [/quote]