Appen is a SCAM - Run away while you still can! - Senior Web Developer Appen Employee Review

1.0
23 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

a) Appen's website looks "professional". Appen's email communications appear "template-based". b) Lots and lots of assessments - but you will never get paid (that is a guarantee)

Cons

a) Lots and lots of assessments - but you will never get paid (that is a guarantee) b) They will never pay you. They will never train you. They are offering "ghost opportunities" when their company is a shell-company that has no funding. Fake job advertisements. No training opportunities. Hear the alarm bells going.

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Appen Response
8y
Thanks for sharing your feedback. We’re very sorry to hear your frustrations. We pay our team of independent consultants fair market rates for all work that is completed. In order to deliver the best service to our customers, we do require that the work meets certain standards. If you’d like to chat about your concerns, please contact at us at hr@appen.com.

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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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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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