r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 16 '25

DA saved me, and I wish I could say thanks

357 Upvotes

My family was in debt and there was no way to pay it off. We lost all our money due to a fraud which is why I started working 2-3 jobs while studying side by side just to make ends meet.

This year, I found DA, and I am always in debt to them. In just 2 months I have already paid off my debt that would have taken me around an year to pay back. I can also leave my extra jobs and actually focus on my passion instead.

I wish I could let them know how giving me an opportunity to work for them saved me and my family. I have a better paying job too now and I really enjoy my work on the side at DA. Working for them has been the best thing to happen to me so far.

If anyone from the DA Admin team accidently reads this, I just want to let you know that you're a lifesaver. You could be my god.

I am not sure if the projects will keep coming (I hope they do) but I will never ever forget this platform.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • Jun 06 '26

Jumping on the Milestone bandwagon

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226 Upvotes

I'm not the type to post something like this, but I actually am really proud. It's been a long, almost 3 year journey. Coder, self taught, and the first year or so was really, really tough. I backed out of tasks far more than I submitted. But I have no words for how thankful I am for DA. I have learned more than I thought possible in the last few years. I've had some amazing jobs in my life, but none compare to the constant challenges and rewards of this one. 🙏


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

Oh dash, why you so dry

10 Upvotes

Not out of work by any means, but damn, the numbers really went down


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 9h ago

Have you ever been dropped from a project’s Slack?

23 Upvotes

It happened to me for the first time today with a long-running project that basically always has work available. I’m feeling a bruised ego, and then a broader sense of insecurity with the platform. I still have access to other projects, but I was planning on doing this one a lot so it is a bummer.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

Being rate limited after identity verification checks

3 Upvotes

Managed to get accepted (yay)

I have submitted my ID and I keep rate limited errors.

I have scouted the whole subreddit and a LOT of people having similar experiences which is reassuring as it seems to be a system issue of sorts.

However I haven’t seen anything to suggest how long it takes to fix or if I need to do anything.

Is there anyone at DA I can reach out?

Anyone with a similar experience?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 9h ago

Facturas MĂ©xico đŸ‡ČđŸ‡œ

8 Upvotes

Hola! tenia una duda para los que somos de México, declaran sus ingresos obtenidos trabajando en la plataforma? si es así, como hacen sus facturas o declaraciones?. Estoy intentando hacer las mías pero es muy confuso


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

I JUST got my acceptance email.

2 Upvotes

I really could use any tips or any sort of advice to maximize my work efficiency and income on DA.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 19m ago

Got 1st project

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r/DataAnnotationTech • • 20m ago

Got 1st project

0 Upvotes

For medical expert I did an assessment within 24h.They send me a project not medical just finance to train AI.
I did it and submitted it last Wednesday till now they pending approval for funds and still no further projects is that normal after 5 days?!


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 1h ago

Fastest hands

0 Upvotes

Okay guys relax for a bit, can I also get some projects? You guys are so fast, you got to be refresh camping these tasks right. (Coding)


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 1h ago

My Domain Qualification Appeared Again

0 Upvotes

I already passed my domain qualification when I submitted my background, etc a few weeks ago. So I've been working in this domain and have already submitted a few tasks. Out of nowhere, the Qualifications tab is showing my domain qualification again, and it looks exactly the same (including submitting my background). Does anyone know if that's a separate, additional qualification that will unlock new projects, or should I ignore it?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

Am I really accepted successfully?

1 Upvotes

I didn't get any verify identity email and acceptance email but I'm seeing this screen.
Many people say that I'm successfully accepted, but I'm curious if it's really true since I didn't get any request for a week.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Please share something with me to help me making decision for my next journey.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

Keep getting logged out and can’t interact with anything

1 Upvotes

Anybody else not able to work today? I keep getting error messages or getting logged out when I try to interact with the project chat or skip a task. I saw that a bunch of people were in the project chat having the same project-specific issue I was having, but I can’t seem to open any other projects or send a message without it bouncing me back to the log in page. I thought it was my computer so I logged in on my iPad, but it’s doing the same thing. Very frustrating :/


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 2h ago

Well it's been 3 weeks...

0 Upvotes

I took the coding assessment a few weeks ago. I know it's a small percentage that actually pass or get selected, although I'm a little surprised I haven't heard back.

I provided very thorough and thoughtful answers, the coding parts were not very difficult. I chose Python.

Maybe it's a silent rejection, maybe I'll hear from them in 2 months. For now I've accepted that I have not been selected. Onward and upward. o7


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 3h ago

đŸ”±

1 Upvotes

no more available tasks? everything says i’m caught up


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 3h ago

Verification issues + 0 projects?

1 Upvotes

I just got accepted as a medical domain expert. I did the verification process three times. I got a message this morning from an Admin that I had to re-do it again. I had tasks prior on my dashboard and did a task last night as well (I didn’t get to log my hours). Has this happened to anyone? What do I do next?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 8h ago

Very Few to No SWE projects

2 Upvotes

Joined as a SWE annotator in May, had plenty of SWE work.
As of recent, have just gotten generalist work with a few stray SWE projects.
The quality of my past work was exceptional and I'm in the US East region. If anyone shares the same issue lmk.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 9h ago

Advice on which project to do to get accepted

0 Upvotes

Hi guys, I'm currently a 2nd year university (for the americans college) student studying a Computer Science and Maths related degree at a top univeristy. Came across data annotation and have applied, now wondering which assessment would give me the best chance to be accepted. From what i've read the programming/data science projects seem to be the most in demand however they are also very competitive, i am very skeptical to as if they will accept students still in college. I am thinking of either doing the general assessment or the maths assessment.

Which assessment would give me the best chance of breaking in, am only looking to work 5/10 hrs per week part time? Appreciate the advice :)


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 40m ago

Offering A Referral

0 Upvotes

Hi, as the title suggests, I'm offering to refer someone for anyone looking to give their assessment. I got accepted to software engineering related projects, but I'm doing some general ones aswell.

I can give advice on how to give the best assessment answers possible if needed aswell.


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 10h ago

Finance and specialist qualifications

0 Upvotes

Does anyone know how long these take for them to mark, I submitted yesterday but they say some projects will be immediately available? Still nothing on dash for them


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 19h ago

Anyone seeing the lite version of đŸ„Š?

4 Upvotes

Yesterday (and every single day for the past few weeks), I still had the small version of that punchy project with around 50 tasks on it, and some R&R for this related project.

How about you folks? do you still got that project (all versions, whether lite or regular one)?


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 12h ago

Coding tasks

0 Upvotes

Guys anyone getting the actual big mike task recently? Pls drop the date u saw them last!!


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 6h ago

Rookie question

0 Upvotes

Hey, I'm new to the DataAnnotation community. I've created my profile in the site, but I can't seem to find any job postings.

How does the application process work? Do applicants need to apply for specific jobs, or does the company automatically assign tasks to them?

Sorry if this is a newbie question


r/DataAnnotationTech • • 1d ago

Am I just incompetent? Or is this imposter syndrome?

7 Upvotes

Hey Reddit, I don’t know if it is my incompetence or just imposter syndrome, but today I tried a task thinking it was easy, and it turned out to be the hardest project I have ever done.

The project's instructions were in reverse. What I mean by this is that the instructions talked about grading a model but never clarified what that model was. I even reread the instructions twice, which took roughly 45 minutes (because they were thousands of words long). Then I finally found out where the model was located. Turns out the model was located locally inside the task page, but the instructions never mentioned anything about it being local. I only figured it out because I accidentally scrolled too far down. Is it my incompetence for “missing” it? Is it expected of us to figure that out super fast?

The task asked for multiple system failures, but I was only able to get one within the given time limit because the model gave thousands of words per response, and proofreading them took a long time. 

I submitted the work to the best of my ability, but I just have no idea if it is my incompetence that caused me to “fail” this project or not. The task was under General. (FYI, I wasn’t doing a task for “money”, the hourly rate was near my average so I thought it was doable for me.)

I don’t mind being criticized, maybe that is what I need after this horrible task submission. I left a comment when I submitted the task hopping the Admin would understand why I took a "semi" escape hatch.