It's definitely hard. There was certainly no clear cut solution to any of the problems I included on the card in the picture. We evaluated 8 or 10 different solutions for out of the box stuff, found things we liked and didn't like about all of them and eventually decided it was best to build our own. At each step there was a lot of debate because we knew this would probably be used beyond just the Careers project and be used in the Q&A project as well (separate at the time), so it wasn't just worrying about my team's concerns, but everyone's. We won some debates, we lost some debates, it was very hard.

I've done localization conversion projects a few times so I can relate. There's never one way to translate everything (e.g. page content, URLs, database content, images, forms), there's usually several translation methods to evaluate, you have to trawl your whole codebase to tag text for translation, translating routes/URLs tends to break all code that doesn't expect those names to change, new developers have to be taught to develop new content with translations in mind, you have to schedule allowing content to be translated along with time to get it translated to get everything done on time and you need a new workflow for how translatable text is delivered, translated, reviewed and deployed.