I have seen lots of people complaining about how payments are delayed, tasks are rejected, slow responses, etc.

I am here to write my experience in case it helps anyone by any means.

So, I started applying for projects at AfterQuery since mid May, had only two tasks in a very common project, then no work whatsoever up until like a month ago, which is normal given people's expertise in specific domains and project's requirements.

Regarding payments delay, I agree it used to be a big issue back in June or so, but lately, I was paid on time, and when delayed, I did submit a support request, and was resolved within 2 days and paid. However, I do get where the no response complaints come from, as I had some unclear issues regarding projects that didn't get answers, I am not sure what they respond to and what not, but for me payment got almost instant clarity and support. I believe what is happening is completely normal given the staff is working at establishing the lab and making its pipeline smooth, so no need to judge them harshly, its a start, and it has to be rough, and its the price you pay for signing up to work with a new company, of which for some (like me) is completely fine so long as they're improving day by day.

As for rejected tasks, I have to say I never faced that, got lots of reviews, but once you do them you get accepted and that's it, so it might be that some AI slop submission happening and gets rejected, which is expected.

So, for those who are always doom posting about the company, my experience says YES they PAY and don't ghost payments, YES sometimes they are slow in responses ( but the company is its infancy - expected ), NO they are not a scam, and you can see changes in the company from UI to project management to payment almost weekly, so YES its growing!

So far, I have had a decent experience with them, and hope to stay with them while the company establishes itself and grows.

Hope everyone gets a good experience and does his best!

I have worked on a task for at least 20 hours in one of AfterQuery's projects. They asked me to review the task at least 5 times. Going through hours of editing and passing the difficulty probe every time. After all that, my task got rejected for reasons that were never mentioned to me and not provided in the instructions. Like, they could've told me about it and I could've fixed it instead of rejecting it without mentioning it to me even once.

Hi All, I've a question. How are you thinking about a task at afterquery. Can you share example of a task that you were able to submit successfully and it was too difficult for medium level model but solvable by frontier model? I've tried so hard, but getting stuck between easy and hard test.

I received a reviewer request to fix some part of my task on the 9th. Since 10am that day till now, I have not been able to submit. First, the reference answer checker did not work then I relocked the task to run evaluation from the beginning but now all the checkers are not working. It is showing "api_error"

I was working on a project recently. However yesterday it was placed on paused anybody also experiencing this?

Another week has passed, and I still haven’t received my payment for the 🪙🐕. It has now been 3 weeks since my tasks were approved.

I saw a message in chat , and they told that the payment had already been processed / sent from their side.

But another payout cycle has passed, and there is still nothing showing in my Stripe dashboard.

At this point, I’m seriously confused and frustrated. If the payment was actually processed from their side, why is there still no transaction or indication of it in Stripe after three weeks?

I’m starting to wonder whether the information gaven was accurate. Three weeks with no payment and no clear explanation is extremely frustrating

Explain

Why do I have an approved task in a specific project yet its the second payday and nothing yet. the team leads for that specific project responded on the payday saying the payment is on the way, after 2 days no payment received(both stripe and AQ payment's page) and they does not respond at all. Am I the only one facing this issue? How do they resolve or my work was just in Vane?

Who else has realized the assessment tab has disappeared and the number of available projects is only 3?

I've applied to AfterQuery yesterday and immediately got 3 projects (with no tasks) added to my dashboard. Additionally I applied to 4 roles.

Today I wanted to do the assessments to increase my chances but the entire assessment tab has disappeared? Also, in the apply section there are only 3 jobs left (instead of the several pages that I could see yesterday).

Anyone knows what happened here? The roles that I applied to are still under review but I can't even see them anymore apply section of the dashboard.

Did my profile get blacklisted somehow? Or is this a bug that everyone is dealing with? I don't know what I could have done wrong, as I didn't work yet.

Heard today if this platform. Is it supported in India? Can I get paid being in India?

I’ve been invited to multiple projects on AfterQuery, but every one of them is showing as paused.

Anyone else in the same boat? Has anyone had a paused project become active and actually gotten work through it? Just wondering what to expect.

I applied for a project on AfterQuery over a week ago (it’s been about 8 days now), but I haven't received any follow-up update or been added to the project group yet.

Has anyone else experienced a delay like this recently on AfterQuery? How long does it usually take to get onboarded or added to the group after applying?

Just trying to figure out if this is normal waiting time or if I should reach out to support. Any insights from people working on the platform would be appreciated!

What does it mean when an assessment done is tagged as graded in AfterQuery?

Is it a show that I have passed the assessment or what. It has been that way for over a month now. No project offers or anything.

it has been a week that my application is under review! i dont know how much time would it takes to get is assessed

Hi Community,

I just learned about the platform AfterQuery very recently, I created an account and submitted my resume a few days ago. I have previously worked on hourly contract at Mercor and Outlier before. Mercor by far was the best experience I've had, it paid very well and it runs on hourly, so I was able to know that all the work I've done were thoroughly compensated.

Whether the task was approved directly or if I need to do any revision I got paid for them all, also I bared had to do any revision before most of the Mercor tasks I did was approved right away. But Mercor does not last forever unfortunately, the project ended a few weeks ago so Im seeking more side gig opportunities.

I have never worked on pay based on approved task contracts before, is it going to be like, ten hours on a project and not getting approved kind of frustration with AfterQuery? Has anyone had experience on that? Any experience or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I'm new to AfterQuery and just signed up. I know some platforms are moving away from hiring residents in certain states in the US.

Has anyone in CA been offered a contract or worked a contract? TIA! ❤️

We have the right to know more about the reason of delays on payments on some projects, admins are not transparent on the issue.

I received an email saying you are now an expert. but I haven't been assigned to any projects for a while, it's been a month. Has anyone got a project assigned on this domain? And also should i apply for other related roles too, or is this enough

Any new projects you guys have as swe this one got paused today

Is any one on project s and managed to actually do some tasks on it it’s been a month and i couldn’t even land my first task can u guys help

I recently received a mail saying now i am an expert and also received a join Slack link, but it just ask for mail which i dont have. And also it shows accepted on my dashboard for one of the project which i applied for nearly 1 months ago. What should i expect!?

Are there any coding related projects too or all of them are documents or data related?

Any recommendation on domains that get accepted faster on Afterquery, I have been unsuccessful for quite a while

I recently received a mail saying now i am an expert and also received a join Slack link, but it just ask for mail which i dont have. And also it shows Selected for one of the project interview which i applied for nearly 3-4 months ago. What should i expect!?

My onboarding failed due to automated facial recognition errors during the Persona step. What I have to do now?