Legit work from home, but too much nonsense - Search Engine Researcher (Rater) Appen Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

100% work from home @ $10/hr. Work your own hours, whenever you want, so long as you make the minimum each week. A decent chat community for employees.

Cons

They don't understand their own instructions, often offering contradicting feedback. Poor communication overall. Will fire you for failing the client's "blind exam" which doesn't tell you which tasks they were grading you on, what the metric was, or what you did wrong. Work is often mind numbingly boring, often with little to no real instructions for some tasks. Also some very disturbing work, which you can opt out of, but that means less work for you (see next point). Often fail to have work available at all. Some months you could be lucky to get a couple of hours a week. During the pandemic we basically didn't have a job for 6 months.

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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
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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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