Don't waste your time - US Rater Appen Employee Review

1.0
May 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work when you want and is Non- Phone.

Cons

Communication does not exist, takes months to get a help ticket reply and then all they do is say it has been closed when it was never resolved. You can only talk to them by email but they won't respond anyway. Low pay on most projects, Missing hours on pay. Take tests and tell you pass but never assign you to the project. I could go on and on. Worked there for years and after they changed to CrowdGen it has never been the same. Not that is was great before but was something. also only pay once a month.

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5.0
Dec 2, 2025
Anonymous employee
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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
Business Outlook

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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