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.
