Remotasks Reviews 773

DUMB ASS COMPANY

They kicked me out for no reason and then did not even tell me the reason. It will happen to you as well, I am telling you. Their slack is full of people asking why they were kicked out and they don't say a word.

Truth be told scale.ai and remotasks.com are doing something completely illegal, uncalled for and unneccesary in Africa. They are paying Africans 0.02USD/hr for the same task they will pay 50USD/hr in US or India. Tell me what is this guys? Tasks available in US and Indian accounts are not available in any country in Africa. They are racists, and we all need to stand up to say NO!!!!

Remo is a racist organization that should be banned. How comes you deny Africans access to well paying jobs (coding and GenAi) when the continent has great talent. By denying us access to great projects you force us to use other means to hide our identities with hope of landing the well paying gigs.. Consider allowing access based on merit and quit with the racist and discriminatory tendencies !!

I got automatically rejected from passing the general screening because of the "knockout questions" at the end of the process. I wasted three hours of my life just to get rejected because I refuse to work a lot and am not super excited to be a part of expert-level writing tasks. BS company.

Consistent hours and high earning will get you banned. I have been doing great work with no low quality warning and was on track for the bonus. However, after I hit that 60 hours mark. They suddenly suspended my account with a very vague "Violation Term of Use". Was having more than 1,500 pending for pay with bonus...

Loss of words. I thought people were blowing smoke for a while. Nope Remo is all lies. What a pity and disheartening place. Done wasting my time on a place who takes advantage of everyone they can. It doesn't matter how well you do. I would rather use my skills where they will be valued. Many people don't even realize what positions they are fulfilling and being underpaid in (if paid at all). The worst company! 💯 The best place EVER if you enjoy being lied to everyday. If you enjoy playing mind games everyday. If you enjoy bologna. Come on downnnn! Your the next victim on The Price Is Wrong. I LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES DON'T LET THEIR WANNA BE POSITIVE FAKE REVIEWS FOOL YOU. Do your research. I'm pretty sure that it's Remotasks who leaves those "positive" reviews or they pay for it to be done. It all starts out positive. I hear that many try to blame it on the workers for various reasons. If you want to give it a shot. Give it a shot. Just don't have any expectations at all. You will be let down and it won't last. I have been a top performer since day 1. Training the AI models on stolen data. Do your research. I quit working for them to focus on opportunities that I can rely on. AS THEY SAY NEVER PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET!

On the surface, the entry into Remotasks brings a feeling that this is a well-run organization and a great opportunity to apply your area of expertise in a highly flexible work setting. The reality, from what I witnessed was more like an introduction to a dystopian nightmare where robots run by a totalitarian system are your boss. If you are looking for a very peripheral source of side income with absolutely no expectation of reliability, it might be interesting to consider for a time. If you actually need to rely on this for consistent income, just stop and look elsewhere. Save yourself the inevitable stress of it failing you in so many different ways.

The good:
- Generally well-organized tests and training to get set up in a project
- I felt like I was learning useful things about training AIs
- Some of the tasks allow creative flexibility and can be interesting opportunities for creativity or learning
- Aesthetically-pleasing interface
- You paid weekly with little delay (most of the time).

The Bad:
- RT promotes itself as offering flexible work, but what they don't say is that they consider the offering of said work to be flexible as well. In some projects, I witnessed a daily struggle for almost everyone to get any work assigned at all. Or, you may become accustomed to consistent work, and then see it disappear for a time. Don't count on it!!!
- Also, do not count on getting paid correctly or on time. As opposed to the many concerns I saw expressed on Slack channels, I mostly found my base pay to be consistent and reliable. But you may think (you know, based on reading the fine print) that if you complete a bonus offered a given week it will come with that week's pay. But this is not a safe assumption to make. Even though the bonuses may be 30% or more of your weekly earnings, they may or may not be paid correctly or on time. If there are pay issues, expect very long delays and not much communication as they are addressed.
- If the idea of job security bores you, you will be excited to know that the robots could determine at any time with absolute certainty (this is what support told me) that you have been using a third-party AI to help with your work. As this is forbidden, it is assumed that you give automatic permission to be immediately removed from a project for committing this offense... besides, they would not want to bore you with something like a warning! That would ruin the edge-of-your-seat excitement. In fact, when you read the group message reminding you to not use other AIs, you are not concerned as you know you are not, but what you don't yet know is that it doesn't really matter whether you do or do not. All that matters is whether the robot says that you did. If it does, you will be automatically removed and there will be zero transparency, zero evidence provided to you, and zero opportunity for a review of objective facts. The robot is all-knowing. You have been booted from that project, never to return.

Now, in a few weeks, you are surprised to see an email inviting you back as you have been added to a new project.

Curious, and now poorer for not having the income you had counted on for a few weeks, you decide to check it out. You pass the tests, complete the training, and start to feel like maybe this time it is going to work out well. The other project was probably an anomaly.

So you start gaining some momentum working on this new project, and you find you enjoy the creativity, and that there are also opportunities to learn new things and be mentally challenged. After a few weeks, you finally see your feedback become available, so you check it out, looking for places you can improve. You are happy to see many very positive comments and a few minor things that you make note of to refine. You casually notice that a few of the reviews seem to have inappropriately classified your prompt as being irrelevant to the topic, but it is late at night, and you assume all is well as you have received no warnings.

But the next morning, as you log in, you find that you are no longer assigned to this project or any project. Confused, you check your email for clues, and see an email stating that you have been removed not only from the specific project but from the entire platform due to "low-quality work." You recall this being threatened in group messages if one were to write too many off-topic prompts, and now those inaccurate reviews you noticed last night stand out. You have not seen any other reasonable explanation.

So, now, rather than working a long and productive day with creative tasks, you find yourself feeling stressed wondering if your situation will even be heard or if any explanation or review of the situation will be offered. You take a moment to center yourself and set about writing help tickets and Slack messages that seem to disappear into the void. Robots rule.

I did several tasks for a month (almost 200) but I only got paid for two tasks! Seems like a waste of time and therefore scammers!!! run away!

A complete waste of time. Went through a whole month of various techincal diffiulties from their side. First from not being able to register, then not being able to complete the assessment. In the end, they have removed me from the project due to using VPN, when I have never used a VPN. Complete scam.

No support, no feedback, no work. Simple as that. Do not give these people your personal information.

Wish I could give 0/.5 here. Firstly they rejected me for expert panel without any screening test. Later for the general one I spent hours to complete the test and cleared it. Then when I asked them for the joining bonus they promised, and raised some issues pertaining to the tasks, they vanished. Real frauds and they waste your time.

They pay for some things and not others. I can't recommend working for a company that doesn't pay what they say they will. Support is terrible and unhelpful. It takes weeks to get back to you then they close your ticket before actually doing anything to help. If you want to actually get paid for your time, choose another company to work for.

As a user of Remotasks, I'm compelled to express my severe dissatisfaction with their services. Remotasks performance in terms of customer support and data privacy is abysmal, to say the least. Their blatant disregard for user concerns and refusal to honor basic data deletion requests is alarming and unacceptable.

Firstly, attempting to reach their customer support is akin to screaming into the void. Their support channels seem to exist solely for decorative purposes, with no real intention of providing assistance to distressed users. Emails go unanswered, tickets disappear into a black hole, and any hope of receiving a timely or coherent response is shattered.

Furthermore, their negligent stance on data privacy is downright appalling. Despite repeated requests for account deletion and the right to be forgotten in accordance with data protection laws, Remotasks has the audacity to brush off these legitimate concerns. Users are left in a state of perpetual vulnerability, with their personal information and data held hostage by this negligent company.

The refusal to delete and forget account data is not only a flagrant violation of user rights but also a clear demonstration of Remotasks utter disregard for ethical business practices. Their actions showcase a disdainful attitude towards user autonomy and privacy, creating an environment of distrust and frustration.

In an era where data privacy is paramount, Remotasks' cavalier attitude towards user data is reprehensible. Potential users beware: this company's lack of commitment to customer support and data privacy should serve as a red flag. Steer clear of Remotask if you value your privacy and expect even a modicum of respect for your data and your rights as a user.

Very odd work environment. From one day to the next, the rules can change, leaving us workers completely bewildered. After I worked for the company a little over a month, I was suddenly and abruptly suspended from working, and my account was "frozen," because the fraud department suspected that I was using AI or another prohibited tool to write my articles!! Fraud dept. was launching an investigation, supposedly. That was nearly a month ago, and I have NEVER gotten to talk to a live person about this debacle. I've never heard anything from the Fraud dept. either. When I tried to message the few "lead persons" for whom I had a contact address, they immediately cut me off from the avenue of communication with them. I was treated like someone who has the plague!! (Mind you, I have been a writer for the company TextBroker for more than 10 years and have ALWAYS been highly praised for my writing skills there.) But, at Remotasks, the great articles that I wrote for them (and received good pay for writing) did NOT receive accolades, but rather got me ostracized, sidelined, and totally avoided. Unbelievable!

They literally have you improve their AI engine in the initial assessment th en not pay you. These people are frauds. This should not be a legal business model. Basically taking peoples work for free. They suck

completed approximately 1/3 of their extremely lengthy initial assessment (that one must take before completing any actual tasks). signed in to continue working (website clearly states that one doesn't have to complete the assessment in a single sitting; i was doing it in chunks) and found myself suddenly much farther towards the end of it than i should have been. after completing what was left of the test, i was informed that i'd passed two of the sections but that the "quality of my work" on the others (you know, the ones i wasn't given the opportunity to do) didn't meet their standards.

now, remotasks had laid out a clear pay structure for how much one would receive, dependent on which sections they passed. to date, they have made no attempt to compensate me for my labor, their website indicating that i haven't done any work, which is a lie. it's clear to me that their "assessment" is actually a task; they trick you into performing free labor for them, then make up a reason not to pay you. presumably i didn't complete the task "in time" as far as when they needed it done, a timeline that wasn't shared with me, which is why they truncated the task.

my opinion was cemented by the complete boilerplate response i received after contacting support. "we're aware of this issue and rest assured we're working on it." yes, i'm sure you are aware of the fact that you're a fraudulent company who commits wage theft, and i'm also sure you're working diligently to continue your scheme and cheating people out of money.

Don't payout, disqualify you for "low quality work" the day before pay but you didn't submit any work. Tell you the reason after you ask how that could be is you never passed the initial exam. But I have money pending as payable due to taking 3 exams after the initial exam. Those promised pay for completion + some more if passing. So, once again constant excuse after excuse as to why they won't pay you. They also cannot read or speak properly. Very repetitive people. Great at re-reading their "we just robbed you of your time to fill our pockets" stuff over and over again. If everyone who has had this happen to them in the U.S. files a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Labor as an independent contractor (doesn't take too long), maybe someone will shut their site down so freelancers can stop getting screwed over. They also tried to hire me again on Upwork after disqualifying me. As you can see, they do their due diligence by choosing to ignore or not look at the facts. The Admin, Rudolf, is a bot I'm pretty sure.

Prepare to be fired by AI when the AI is wrong about its classifications and you tell it, even though that is supposed to be what they are paying you for. Terrible communication, Slack links that don't work, bugs in their system that you will be penalized for. This is not a reliable source of income due to how poorly designed the platform is. I completed hundreds of tasks for their "Bulba" experts project, which due to a slip up in their documentation was revealed to actually be Google Bard. I received positive feedback on the project and was given access to more advanced levels of tasks. Then, they set a trap with a fake bonus announcement of an extra $10 per task completed stacking with an extra $100 per every 20 tasks completed. This motivated me to focus as hard as I could and operate more efficiently than before and complete more tasks. Then, with no feedback, nothing stating anything about the quality of my work being worse, I stopped receiving any new tasks. Communication with customer service is completely worthless. And to top it off, they paid less than half of the bonus promised, so far.

I got Hired and Fired the same day citing "poor quality work". The task themselves are not friendly. They take a lot of time and pay in cents. You will be lucky to make $3 per hour! Tell me if there is a serious employer who can hire and fire you the same day? The least I expected was a training. On the positive side though they paid me my $2 dues via PayPal the following week.

Pay is not consistent. They paid me fractions of a penny for tasks. It does not even add up to minimum wage. I would work hours a week and make about $7 total for the WEEK! The managers say the pay is correct. But clearly it is not adding up anywhere near the promised pay rate of $10-12/hr. They are liars and will gaslight you. They do NOT care or listen.