Extremely Low Pay and No Transparency - AI Data Annotator Micro1 Employee Review

1.0
13 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Fully remote and flexible timing.

Cons

Their contract is does not specify your designation, hours, pay, mode of payment, nature of employment e.g. Contract, fulltime or part time. They have a 30 day notice period in the contract. The pay is so low at only 0.4 dollars per annotation and the most you're able to do while meting their quality standards is 20 annotations a day. They first approached us saying we will be paid 5 dollars an hour and then sent another email saying we have another opportunity which you can apply for instead which was the same exact one and had no compensation info. Tantamount to modern day slavery. The CEO Ali Ansari pokes his nose into the Slack threads regularly. There are some projects that pay better than this role at Micro1 but overall the company is exploitative and treats you very unfairly.

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5.0
3 Jul 2026
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Pros

Love this team, love this company. It's head and shoulders above others in the space. I am treated with kindness and respect at every turn.

Cons

I wish I had full-time benefits.

1.0
15 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None - total con job using you

Cons

Total con job. Uses your financial background to extract value to their clients. I get it - I'm not ignorant - however the entire selection process was about financial modeling, markets, etc. and then EVERY step after was a protracted process about "fix this rubric" "fix this word" never mentioned in job description or selection process. ~40 hours, $0 because i gave up. And the best part!?!? They'd send you contradictory, overlapping and overly descriptive yet simultaneously imprecise requests for what they want, from multiple people. They'd literally send me a 5 minute video per person, where it's clearly more efficient if they fixed it themselves, and we could each specialize in our individual AOI and provide value.

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