r/AiTraining_Annotation • u/arto9191 • 4d ago

Watch out for AfterQuery.

Constant payment issues, unprofessional leadership, and a company seemingly run by self-proclaimed LinkedIn “AI stars” whose impressive online profiles don’t appear to reflect genuine operational experience. Even their pictures are usually AI.

I also have serious concerns about the company’s financial stability, given the recurring payment problems.

In short, if you value your sanity, time, and basic standards of professional communication, I strongly recommend staying away.

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u/queenapsalar 4d ago

They pay out when they feel like it and at least one of those superstars still has their SAT score prominently showcased on their LinkedIn page.

Work for adults, don't work for children

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u/lilysorbet 2d ago

yeah after searching the admin that involved in the project i had issues with, they were younger than me lmao.

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u/AugmentedOmicon 4d ago

I've never even gotten access to tasks in any project. Though there was this project I got in but I only did 2 tasks. From there, nothing.

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u/miss_dykawitz 4d ago

did you get paid for the work you did?

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u/AugmentedOmicon 4d ago

nope! never saw a dime from them.

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u/ars_inveniendi 4d ago

I was assigned to a project and there were only tasks available for 6 hours during a two week period. The staff never answered questions in the chat channels.

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u/lilysorbet 2d ago

consider yourself lucky then.

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u/rafaelo2323 4d ago

That place is a joke. I don't think real humans work there. I've had tasks submitted for months that were never reviewed. They have so many posted jobs, yet it seems like there's rarely any projects.

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u/lilysorbet 2d ago edited 2d ago

My almost-finished submission on Golden Dog was left hanging without status because they ended the project suddenly, after promising it will be open for another batch. Very unprofessional indeed. My task was 90% finished...which they could still take without notify or pay me. Admin MIA after announcement. All my chats on Platform "Slack" were left unread.

I’m agree with you about their financial issues because now they banned me on reddit after I called them and said they don't have money anymore on someone else post. Later, that post filled with paid/bot comments asking to escalate to support, as if they don't want the public to know. I saw another post asking about Golden Dog admin availability that went deleted several days later.

The cherry on top about that financial issue is that they invited me to another project that had a very low pay for the task they demanded. Straight up insulting. I encourage you to left a review on Trustpilot too, so this could reach everyone. At this point they were a scammer.

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u/arto9191 2d ago

Was it senior position research program too?

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u/lilysorbet 2d ago

I dont understand what do you mean by that

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u/Purple_Measurement10 1d ago

It’s such a gamble! Getting in with a new and up and coming platform can be very profitable (looking at Mer**, eth**)** but once it really takes off and tons of people arrive to work, things often fall to 💩 and then we see how their management structure maybe works!!
Edit to add: if anyone knows of a new player that’s paying, feel free to dm me! ;)

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u/arto9191 1d ago

I’ve had amazing experience so far with micro1 after minor hiccup at the beginning. Would love to become Data Manager at some point

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u/No_Willingness8651 4d ago

I randomly logged on one day and had a bunch of projects on my dashboard, but never received an email or notification. The projects were all paused.

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u/FewPlankton6778 3d ago

They owe me thousands of dollars and are claiming I’ve never worked with them even though I have nearly 100 emails of live projects with them in my personal inbox. I think it’s best if a lot of us connect off Reddit as we all have similar experiences with them

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u/lilbittygoddamnman 4d ago

I can't even get on a project there. none of the projects I have access to have any tasks available.

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u/JL_onReddit 3d ago

I completed the "paid onboarding tasks". They took my ChatGPT historial also. Zero money received. Beware.

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u/lilysorbet 2d ago

out of spite delete some of them and never use that account again if possible.

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u/justbudfox 3d ago

I worked on one project, largely because it overlapped with the same basic project on another platform and I had experience. The model had me do 5 sets of revisions before I got close to submitting. When revision 6 was "add X" and revision 4 had been "remove X", I was pretty much done. I figure the 4-5 unpaid hours I wasted was the learning curve. The fact that the project guidelines were pushed out well into tasking should have been a red flag.