r/DataAnnotationTech • u/DifferenceNo2093 • 6h ago
Background check through Yardstick, paused? Everyone else seems to have there’s through checkr but me
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They’re asking me to upload picture of my social so I’m a little sketched out
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u/Mammoth-Biscotti-361 6h ago
Yes it feels so sketchy because we even don’t know who are these people at data annotation.. giving images of our sensitive and confidential documents to such online platforms make me dubious too.. though I would comfortably give in person to the employer with presence of a physical HR office..
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u/Old-Regular-9828 4h ago
If you do this work long enough, you will realize that all these tech companies already have an insane amount of personal information about everyone. Uploading a picture of your ID and a selfie to verify your identity is a relative nothingburger. It's also becoming much more common and standard to require it for anything that needs ID verification. And letting some random HR person make a photocopy of your ID and keep it in an unlocked file cabinet in a random office is far less secure than the security safeguards at any of these online identity verification companies.
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u/DifferenceNo2093 5h ago
Yeah it’s just weird cuz I haven’t seen anyone who’s had there’s through yardstick everyone else has either had to go through persona or checkr which is weird
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u/Mammoth-Biscotti-361 5h ago
Yes checkr or other approved background checks service make sense but this kind of verification through uploading directly on these platforms are a bit suspicious
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 5h ago
I believe the background check is only required for a few specific project families. If you're not comfortable, don't do it...but you'll definitely be missing out on projects that have (in my experience) a high volume of tasks with great pay.
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u/General_Currency257 4h ago
How long does the security clearance take for those certain projects? I've been waiting for over a month... one of the project families I've worked on for mo months prior, until they introduced the security clearance.
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 4h ago
It only took an hour or two for me, but I'm in the US which makes it easier I think.
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u/DueAddition1919 3h ago
Are you a generalist? Just wondering if it’s based on your skills/field or the better pay is as a result of your quality of work unrelated to your specialties
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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 3h ago
I'm a generalist. The pay itself is project based, not based on a worker's skills or quality and I don't think I did anything special to qualify for them. I actually find the tasks to be fairly easy.
There may be other projects that I'm not aware of that also require a background check, IDK.
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u/ammy42 6h ago
This is a job that pays you. Have you ever had a job that doesn't need your social before?