AVOID - Disorganized unpaid waste of time, most likely a SCAM - AI Writer Outlier AI Employee Review

1.0
30 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have nothing positive to say. I am in disbelief that Outlier currently has four stars on Glassdoor. Every interaction I've had with them has been unacceptable as a Remotasker, AI writer, etc. I'm not sure what other positions at the company are like, but you'll want to avoid doing ANY remote training for them.

Cons

I was offered highly flexible remote work at $25/hr with paid training and a sign-on bonus for the project. How it's gone so far: -Despite weeks going by, I have not been paid for the training I took for onboarding or my sign-on bonus. Despite passing the tests and being offered $25/hr, I was told (after all the training I did) that it would be $15/hr. -Unresponsive employees. My immediate manager has done nothing to help and forwarded me to someone else. Other managers on the Slack channel are unresponsive. No one, not even the unhelpful bots on the support site, have responded to the tickets I put in. I was given direct contacts to email if I had any onboarding problems - they didn't respond. My recruiter has ghosted me too. -The training took unusually long. Advertised 5 hours but it took more like 10. Zero transparency on how far you are in the exam and how well you did. I just got a "100%" at the end of my exam with no feedback. -The Remotasks site contains very little useful information. You don't receive any communication about when your next project is, how long it can take, how well you're doing, or pay details. -There's a lot of hands in the cookie jar here, and I strongly believe it to be a SCAM. The organization is so bad it has to be intentional. You have to set up three different accounts to even start tasking, including getting a new google account with whatever project your on. All company documentation is on google docs and slides. No proactive communication from management. No support on Remotasks. The support page is FILLED with people complaining they have not been paid. My training was repetitive and long and I believe they intentionally overhire and train their AI based on these preliminary tests and then ghost you once you're on a project so they don't have to pay you. Don't let the prospect of good remote work let these scam artists get the best of you.

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Pros

part-time work, flexible, and you have a lot of autonomy

Cons

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3.0
14 Apr 2026
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Pros

The short time that I had consistent work was very good. Never had a problem with pay. Paid fairly for work. Plus, I really enjoyed learning all the different tasks. With the "Cons" issues made clear upfront, I would recommend this platform to a friend.

Cons

Applied as a specialist. Only offered generalist work. And haven't had any new projects for a while. The projects I was invited to earlier this year were poorly designed and involved long onboarding processes. They were all iterations of the same poorly-designed project. Since then, nothing. It's frustrating to see job listings from them in my field of expertise and not be able to apply to them. And yes, I've kept my resume and LI updated. It doesn't seem to matter. Also, comparing the community chat platform, monitoring, and ease of use to other (similar) platforms I work with, Outlier's is the worst one. I've found that there are far more people who use Reddit to get their project questions answered and to try to find out what is happening than use and actually get answers from Outlier's own discussion platform.

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