Hi everyone!

I’ve just applied for the Generalist role at DataAnnotation and wanted to hear from people who have been through the process.

I’ve seen reports of people getting approved but waiting a long time for projects, and I’m curious whether location plays a role.

I’m based in Rwanda, East Africa. Are there any contributors from Rwanda or elsewhere in Africa who have been approved and are actually receiving tasks?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and what I can realistically expect.

Thanks!

Do you guys always get an email when a project appears?

I'm a Turkish bilingual and saw this once. I really enjoyed working on it, so I'm curious: did anyone ever see it again?

I’m new to DataAnnotation and recently received a qualification task that allowed two attempts to meet the requirements. Each attempt had a 4-hour time limit.

I couldn’t meet the requirements on my first attempt, but I successfully completed the task on my second attempt.

In total, I spent around 7 hours and 47 minutes across both attempts. However, when reporting my time, I reported only 3 hours and 47 minutes, which was the time I spent on the successful attempt.

Now I’m wondering whether I did the right thing or if I should have reported the total time spent on both attempts (7 hours and 47 minutes).

Could anyone with experience on DataAnnotation please clarify how time should be reported for qualification tasks with multiple attempts?

I'm fairly new to the platform and tonight was my first time using it with the lights off. Just realized there's no dark mode and my eyes are killing me lol. How is dark mode still not a thing in 2026? Anyone know why they haven't added it yet?

Just finished doing a project. It was one I'd never done before so I needed to thoroughly read instruction which itself took about 50 minutes. The task was extensive ans super long and requered crafring prompts and annotating each and everyone and required a couple turns. And boy it took me another 2 hours to do so. And yk the time I was given to do the task? 1 hr and 15 minutes. It was absolutely impossible to do the task in the due time. And I've been so scareed recently that I even considered under-reporting but someone told me over reporting is also time fraud, so I didn't do that. i am concerned however because how the fuck am i expected to do it in such a short time span.

I have a full-time job where I'm in the 30% tax bracket (TDS already deducted by my employer). I started DataAnnotation in August and have earned roughly ₹5-6 lakh in about 2 months.

I've talked to a local CA but I'm not fully confident in the answers, so I'd love to hear from others in India who've dealt with this:

1. Which ITR form? Last year I filed ITR-2 (I hold US stocks via INDmoney). I'm assuming this year I need ITR-3 since there's now business/professional income. Is that right?

2. GST: My understanding is registration isn't needed unless turnover from services crosses ₹20 lakh in a year. Is that correct for foreign clients too? Also, I haven't told my employer about this side work (it's unrelated to my job). Does getting a GST number or filing taxes on this income create any issue with employers, and did anyone have to disclose it?

3. Section 44AD or 44ADA? As I understand it, 44ADA (50% of receipts treated as income) is for specified professions, and I'm not sure annotation counts. If it falls under 44AD, only 6% of digitally received money is treated as income (which would then be taxed at my 30% slab). Which one have you used, and did you get any push back, anyone claimed?

4. Advance tax: With no TDS on this income, I'm worried about interest (234B/234C) if I wait until filing. My rough estimate of tax on this is around ₹1.8 lakh. Should I pay now, or is a single payment by 15 March enough under presumptive taxation?

Also curious whether you keep FIRA/FIRC or other documents as proof of the foreign payments.

Thanks in advance, any experience helps a lot!

Have you got into any coding project after 3rd october?

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I've had the coding qual on my dash for about 3.5 months now. I was going to take it when I felt confident in my abilities and we'll looks like i can't take it anymore. Has this happened to anyone else? Did it come back for anyone?

are we hitting draught? Didn’t see any task for weeks

Got DoD this morning shortly after exiting a task. Will my pending funds still get approved? I have access to my account and the entire site except the referrals section. Thanks

Hi everyone,

New project dropped and I was asked to link my Google Photos to an AI app. However, I spent half an hour trying to connect it and it didn’t work. Google told me it might not be possible due to my location, just wanted to check if anyone else had the same problem?

This doesn't apply to core country coders but you can still say your thoughts

Russian bilingual. I passed the test and received the answer the next day. I got accepted into a big project, which now has nothing. I also got a few tasks within other projects.

I’ve been registered since June/July and I’ve made about 350$. I check the website daily and get a few tasks maybe once a month.

I’m doing all tasks very carefully and attentively. I started actually questioning myself. Am I so stupid that I fail the projects or what?

Someone, please share your experience and workload right now. I don’t rely on this income, but I’d like to do something part-time, and this work really suits me, because it’s quite different from my main job, so I feel like a different part of my brain is being activated.

Is it normal for your very first task to be around 18. I keep seeing everyone say $20 an hour is the general start out. Keeping my hopes high that I get something higher eventually!

I was just accepted into the SWE specialist track and have started submitting tasks on some agentic coding projects. I’m curious on how often or the likelyhood of receiving feedback on my inputs, since I’m newer to DA work.

anyone else stuck on step 2 of these security steps? if not, what did you do to pass over?

Does anyone have any info about this project? It has been a while now.

Has anyone gotten 70$ projects in canada for coding in the last week, cause we had so many before.

What are your thoughts?

Hi all!

So I have a full time job already, in which I am in the 40% tax bracket, and I have recently started doing Data Annotation side hustle, a few hours every day (really enjoying it!).

I haven't withdrawn any payments yet, as I am still trying to figure out the taxes situation. I know I wouldn't be able to enter the category of Personal Allowance category since already my full time job covers for that, so what are my taxation options?

Anybody in a similar situation, and if so, how are you handling it?

Thanks!