Unethical senior management with no interest in the wellbeing of their people or business - Anonymous employee Appen Employee Review

1.0
8 Apr 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mostly remote Salary is paid on time

Cons

Frequent layoffs which are mostly on whims of senior leaders and not strategic at all. Racism is prominent from most US senior leaders, they try to hide it but fail. Extreme favoritism, people are allowed to hire friends without proper interview or hiring processes. During layoffs people save their friends rather than high performing individuals. They fired many women and employees in SE Asia to build a team in the US, RIP diversity and inclusion. Team in India is underpaid. No pay parity, after layoffs we learned that there was significant difference in pay brackets for a lot of employees.

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5.0
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Pros

The work tasks are relatively clear, and my colleagues are very friendly and always offer help when I don't understand something. The company's policies and culture are also very transparent.

Cons

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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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