One of the worst management I have ever seen - Anonymous employee Outlier AI Employee Review

1.0
8 Dec 2024
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
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Pros

none really. If you end up being able to do some tasks you receive some money... big advantages (sarcasm).

Cons

Honestly, where can I even start? You’re lucky if they assign you tasks to complete—these are often taken away arbitrarily. They grade your work, but the rules constantly change, and you receive different or additional information over time, making it impossible to complete a task properly from the beginning. The management is so poor it feels like navigating a real labyrinth. If you score poorly on some tasks, they block you from doing more, which would make sense if you had all the correct information and directives from the start—but that’s not the case. You undergo "training" for certain tasks (most of which are very similar), but as soon as the training is done (minimum 1 hour unpaid), the task is no longer available. Whenever you try to contact support, it either takes forever to get a response or you never receive one. If the issue is urgent, like payment, don’t expect a quick resolution. Honestly, the person who founded this company might be skilled in AI or tech, but everything else—task distribution, customer and worker support, grading management—feels random, as if they spent two minutes setting it up and are just winging it day by day. It’s incredibly unprofessional and poorly managed.

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Pros

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

Cons

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3.0
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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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