If you need to work a few hours from home weekdays, this could be for you. - Anonymous employee Appen Employee Review

3.0
Jan 29, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Working from home is great. Flexible work schedule, though the technology can fail if you wait to work later in the day.

Cons

It is becoming less and less user friendly to be a data annotator - the Sharepoint tools are not set up to be easily accessible. Guidelines used to be in one place, now things can be in many different places. The technology is less and less user friendly as time goes on. The hours that appear as worked in tool are more than the hours that you end up being paid, no matter what you bill.

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Appen Response
10y
Thank you for providing feedback on your experience with Appen. We are constantly working to improve our processes, and information like this is a big help to us.

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5.0
Dec 2, 2025
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Pros

The work tasks are relatively clear, and my colleagues are very friendly and always offer help when I don't understand something. The company's policies and culture are also very transparent.

Cons

Sometimes due to urgent work delivery timelines.

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5.0
Sep 28, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working at home on the computer.

Cons

Lack of proper communication. No phone communication whatsoever, only by sending in tickets and emails. They hired me for a project for me to review advertisements and I worked hard at this task and always looked back at the materials as a guideline to keep all my answers as per how they want them to be. However, this was not good enough for them and I was retested. Of course, I knew they would fail the retest and fire me immediately. In addition, I have been putting in my house on my time sheet and they have not paid me once. They claim I will be paid for the hours I billed for but I have not seen any money yet. I am giving up on seeing any pay and my working with Appen has been a total waste of my time when I could have been putting in my efforts working for someone else.

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Appen Response
8y
We’re very sorry to hear about your negative experience with Appen! Please feel free to contact us at feedback@appen.com; we would love to hear more information about your situation in hopes that it will help us improve our processes. - HR Manager
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