ALERT!! Stay away! Will not pay for work! - Social Media Evaluator Appen Employee Review

1.0
12 Jun 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work from home- would be a pro if you actually got paid for your work.

Cons

Worked on Appen project for a few months, payments were on time and accurate, then comes May and the SRT system was all screwed up so they start terminating loads of people, but whatever it’s a contract job so didn’t mind however I do care about getting paid for my hours worked. My last week of work disappeared and they have not responded to any of my tickets and emails to project managers. So I worked 20 hours and I guess they think it’s ok to not pay or even respond.

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Appen Response
7y
Hello. Please email hr@appen.com regarding any payment issues. It's possible there may have been a delay with someone responding to you but rest assured that we will look into this promptly.

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5.0
28 Sept 2017
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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
8y
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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