Great Place - Generative Ai Associate Innodata Employee Review

The vast majority of the people I worked with on projects for a major internet company were friendly and educated. The pay was decent for trivial remote work.

Projects were tedious at best and seemed poorly designed. Rubrics designed either by the contracting company or Innodata were often poorly thought through, and rules tripped over themselves or remained ambiguous. The company we were sub-contracted to was infamous for not replying to inquiries asking for clarification for how to evaluate the AI. Prompts given to the AI were often incoherent--just a word or name, often misspelled--which left us making arbitrary decisions about how well the AI addressed the prompt. Rubrics were hidden from employees evaluating the AI, though that seemed to be a result of neglect by a company still figuring out how to run things, not an active decision to deceive employees. I left well before the recent waves of layoffs. Management had tried to assure us that jobs were secure, but that seemed delusional given that the contracting company was farming out work through other companies rather than hire us itself.

The other people who are unfortunately left working here are sometimes pretty nice.

They have had 3 or 4 mass layoffs since the beginning of this year. Hundreds of individuals received zero notice and lost their jobs with no explanation. They were sued for violating the WARN Act, and managed to eke out a settlement agreement. They do not care if they end up in court over it again. If you need more proof, take a look at all the weird 5-star reviews that occur within short timeframes, using identical AI-generated language. Same words, same talking points, same losers generating fake profiles to try to keep their head above water. If you need even more proof, take a look at the Reddit boards where people complain about how difficult this company is to get ahold of for payment. Yep, tons of people hired waited weeks, sometimes months, to receive pay while being ghosted by all levels of contact. This is not a fluke, this is how they operate. So think for a minute: Do you want to work somewhere that fibs about their Glassdoor reviews so blatantly that you find IDENTICAL sentences in MULTIPLE reviews, that is notorious across other platforms for NOT PAYING PEOPLE, and has been sued for violating worker rights this year which they dragged out in court until the other party was forced to agree to a settlement? The court documents are all public.