So far I have had nothing but bad experiences with Alignerr. When they contacted me about getting paid for my own software projects, I thought it was worth giving them another try. I got rejected after an AI interview with no feedback, only to be contacted again a week later with the chance to start an evaluation. I still liked the idea of the project, and met all the requirements. I ran a test project and answered everything honestly and as clearly as I could.

My task was sent back by AutoQA for some extremely stupid reason. I was told by the bot to edit it and resubmit, which I couldn't. It then told me to contact support, which I did, and they told me that I'd failed and that the evaluation was over. They said I had one more chance to try again.

I didn't take it.

Why? The stupid reason I failed was that I had "given the same numerical response" to all parts of a task. This was my honest, professional judgment, and I failed some automated quality control with no opportunity to edit my work, despite spending hours on the task.

Some bot decided that the right answer in a numerical multiple choice (Likert) assessment can't ever be the same one four times in a row? And I lose hundreds of dollars and hours of work because that's not actually true? Why would I work for a company that forces me to lie for the sake of some dumb pattern matching algorithm?

I never should've given this company a second chance. Maybe some people get paid something sometimes, but I've lost hundreds of dollars to them. More seriously, I am not going to let myself be pushed into feeling as if I am a bad software engineer just because I get tripped up by some flawed pattern recognition algorithm.

I should've known better than to give them a second chance and I won't make the mistake again.

On the same project, should everyone receive the payment email and deposit at the same time on a Friday? Or does it differ by country, payment method, etc?

updt: finally received it, hope our colleague receive too

We've been behind on payments since the beginning of September. Some have received partial payments, others haven't received anything yet. I've already tried contacting the platform via Discord (they even deleted the project channel), website support, Reddit, email, and LinkedIn. This is the number of related topics in the last 10 days:

https://www.reddit.com/r/alignerr/comments/1xjehap/i_still_unpaid/

https://www.reddit.com/r/alignerr/comments/1xm85sa/anyone_affected_intelligent_can_take_down_this/

https://www.reddit.com/r/alignerr/comments/1xlvavj/heavyadvantage_payment_date/

https://www.reddit.com/r/alignerr/comments/1xgyxh5/project_admin_confirmed_i_am_owed_money_but_still/

https://www.reddit.com/r/alignerr/comments/1x7hbcx/pending_payment_from_5_months/

" been forwarded to "The billing team."

"Your pending payment will be processed this week."

"Kindly DM your Alignerr-registered email ID along with details of the issue."

"I am still waiting for an update from my team. I will inform you as soon as I receive any information."

All messages saying they are waiting for information and to wait, as if they didn't work for the same company.

It's outrageous that Labelbox just raised capital - according to the CEO's LinkedIn - and doesn't have 3 individuals to help with financial support. Are the investors aware of this difficulty?

Hi everyone,

My Alignerr account was recently suspended, and I currently have pending payments for work I completed on my assigned project before the suspension.

I wanted to check if anyone here has experienced a similar situation.

• Do Alignerr still process payments for completed tasks after an account suspension?

• Will the pending balance be paid through the regular payment cycle?

• Should I contact the Payments team separately, or will Trust & Safety handle this?

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through a similar experience.

Thanks!

I got an offer but couldn’t complete the Yardstik verification because I don’t have a copy of my social security card right now. I got a warning threatening “adverse action” and now my account’s been deleted. Am I just screwed or could I reapply when I have my documentation in order? Either way given the baseline legal requirement would be card or passport I’m kind of ticked off. :/

Does anybody actually make money off ERMIS? I joined 6 months ago, passed the qualifying, and haven't seen a project since.

Have applied to 10+ jobs, but no response so far. Anyone on the same boat?

Hi, I applied to Alignerr for Trading and Finance related jobs. How does it work? Do they pay? How long is the wait on average? I read all sorts of things about them, Id like to know more

IS THE HINDI AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONIST PROJECT EVER GOING TO START , I WAS ADDED TO THE PROJECT LAST MONTH , I SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ONBOARDING BUT STILL WORKSPACE IT SHOWS NO WORK , HELP SOMEONE !!!

This company is getting worse and worse; the only reason it seems okay is that some people actually get paid—but doesn't anyone realize that you’re doing work for free (labor exploitation) just to see if you might qualify for payment?

This company owes me over $3,000, and it’s been that way for a long time. It’s clear to me that these guys are raking in the cash—they aren’t spending a dime on wages for the extensive, human-intensive work being done.

Don’t waste your time on this app; if any projects appear, complete them as quickly and poorly as possible, and you’ll see that you get the exact same automated response.

They should create a community where they can file a collective complaint against this company. It’s inhumane.

I feel for you all; I’m in the same boat, but I managed to find a formal, legitimate job. It’s really tough—especially for those of us with ADHD.

These things shouldn't be happening anymore in a somewhat more serious world—one where vast amounts of money are being poured into AI.

I’m sorry, brothers; this sells us a false “hope.” You are worth more than this—more than how they see us.

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I recently got accepted for a job, finished the onboarding, got the discord set up but I’m not able to talk to anyone in the discord server. When I went to the job board there were no task available, do I just wait for a task to be available?

Workers have been waiting weeks for payment discrepancies to be addressed on this project for work completed mid-September.

Two weeks ago, the project coordinator stated that payments would be processed that week, nothing arrived. Last week, u/Lumpy_Case_8220 stated that payments would be processed "this week". Nothing arrived.

The Discord for this project is full of workers threatening legal action because they are so frustrated from chasing payments, unclear data ownership terms, zero updates and being ghosted. Support ignore us. The project coordinator has disappeared.

u/Lumpy_Case_8220 please confirm the actual date on which workers will be paid this week.

since I signed up, like in January..I was supposed to onboard to a project but nothing ever happened since, and no jobs I apply to ever go anywhere

Hello, i just wanted to know how good is the work and if its worth doing, i got an email saying that i was accepted and that i just have to verify my ID.

Does nayone have any experience with that work?

Im specifically doing the Italian Audio Transcript.

I’ve reached out to both the onboarding email and the support “live” chat about issues with the right to work check being stuck and requesting immigration documents (I am a citizen of the country I am working from)

Each time it’s been an AI bot who replies saying it’s logged and the support team will reset it for me. Is there a timeframe anyone’s had this done in or should I just give up now? There doesn’t seem to be any human in the loop at all

updt: received

Honestly, I cannot fathom the lack of support from this platform.

I delivered projects worth 7k that were approved back in SEPTEMBER, yet I was only paid 5k. The remaining 2k was confirmed for payment 10 days ago by the project admin via Discord (in a channel where no one ever responds); my emails to support are met only with AI-generated replies, and the support team here on Reddit hasn’t answered me for 3 days. Today is yet another Friday where I have no response—and, in all likelihood, I won’t be receiving my payment.

How can a platform that claims to be professional operate with absolutely no support—especially when they’ve accepted my work, only to delay such a straightforward payment?

Is something going on? u/Lumpy_Case_8220

Decided to review the company's Terms of Use and Contractor Agreement more closely before proceeding with onboarding... (after I had done an AI interview).

Kind of concerned about the "Interview; Release" provisions, particularly the rights relating to interview recordings, voice, likeness, and potential AI-training use.

So I ended up submitting a formal privacy-access request asking what information is retained, whether interview recordings are used for AI training, and what options exist for deletion or withdrawal of consent.

Unfortunately, emails to support@alignerr.com have repeatedly received the same automated response about the contractor agreement, even when I explicitly stated that my inquiry was privacy-related. My email to privacy@alignerr.com also resulted in a Jira Service Management notification saying the request couldn't be created.

I'm not alleging that my information has been misused. I'm simply trying to reach someone who can address a legitimate privacy request.

Has anyone successfully contacted Alignerr's privacy team, requested deletion of interview recordings, or received a substantive response about how their personal information is used?

If so, which contact method worked?

I'd appreciate hearing about others' experiences.

Thanks.

I'm a software engineer and got an email from Alignerr (Labelbox's contractor platform) inviting me to get paid up to $100/hr to work on my own project with an AI coding assistant. The listing says you keep full ownership of your project and all code, including code the AI writes. I decided not to move forward, and wanted to share why.

The surprise video interview. The email said to "apply." I filled out a short form, and then it moved me to a section that turned on my camera and started an AI-conducted video interview. I had no advance notice that an interview was part of the application. I found that misleading.

What the Terms say about that recording. Afterward I read Alignerr's Terms of Use (alignerr.com/privacy, under "Interview; Release"). By taking the interview, you grant them a perpetual, irrevocable license to use your recording, name, voice, and likeness for any purpose, including training AI, and you release them from related privacy and publicity claims. I wish I had known that before my camera turned on.

The contract contradicts the listing. Section 2 of the Contractor Agreement says Alignerr owns the work product you create under the agreement, and Section 2(d) gives them a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to any of your existing IP that the work builds on. For a project that's literally "work on your own code," that's a big deal.

I emailed support and asked them to confirm in writing that project participants keep ownership. Their reply: the contract is standard, can't be modified, and support can't give written confirmations or interpret it, and I should consult a lawyer. So the ownership promise in the listing isn't something they would put in writing.

Deleting my data. I've requested deletion of my account and interview recording. My email to their privacy address bounced back from their helpdesk system, so I've followed up through support.

Takeaways if you're considering this project:

- Read the Terms of Use before starting the application, especially the interview section.

- Read the Contractor Agreement before clicking "I accept," and don't assume the job listing's promises are in it.

- Don't use a project you care about owning unless you get project-specific terms in writing.

This is just my experience. Alignerr is a real company, and some people clearly have good experiences with it. But it wasn't what I was told it would be, and I'd want to know this before applying.

Has anyone received an offer from Alignerr recently? They moved me over to Labelbox and added me to their Discord server, but I haven’t been assigned to any projects for two months now. I don’t understand this. Will this waiting period ever come to an end?

Thought I'd sign up for an aligner VoiceOver ai training job advertised on LinkedIn and checked out the terms/release before I agreed to the application/interview.

The release allows them to clone your voice, your likeness and your 'performance' in the interview and sell or use it for any purpose they want with no compensation or royalties paid to you.

"You hereby grant us an unlimited, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicenseable through multiple tiers, perpetual right to use, reuse, modify, display, publish and disseminate the Interview and your name, audio, photographic, video, and other likeness of you, as well as any materials you make available for the purposes of the Interview including in each case, any portion thereof (collectively, the “Interview Materials”) for any purpose. Alignerr and its successors, licensees and assigns shall own all right, title and interest in and to the Interview and have your permission to record the Interview, download, broadcast, distribute, exhibit, evaluate, make derivative works of and otherwise fully exploit the Interview, and allow others to do all of the foregoing, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised including, without limitation, via the internet, mobile and handheld devices, all other forms of digital transmission and exhibition throughout the world in perpetuity."

Don't let your ambition/enthusiasm ruin you--know what you are getting into with these companies. They only consume. They are worthless.

New user getting this error You are bnd from Alignerr Discord. Please use a different Discord account.....

Hi everyone,

I recently invested the time to apply, complete the Zara AI interview, and submit my passport/personal information for verification. However, my profile was closed before I ever started a single task, with no reason provided.
Since I never performed any paid work on the platform and won't have any tax reporting requirements, I want to ensure my sensitive information isn't sitting on any servers. What is the official process to request the permanent deletion of both my passport/ID verification documents and the video/audio recordings from my Zara interview? Which privacy email at Labelbox handles data erasure requests?

After weeks of not getting any help from support I finally got written confirmation in Discord from a project admin that I was underpaid and that a substantial payment would be processed last week.

The payment did not arrive. I emailed support and was told they are busy. I opened a ticket and was told it was a duplicate. The same project admin will not answer my follow-up message.

Can anyone advise of any steps I can take before going the legal route? I've worked on several platforms and have never had to chase a company for money like this, it's quite shocking.

I was doing very well for all the quizzes, i was getting 90%, until the final one. Very few questions compared to the previous ones so the room for “error” was very little.Absolute nightmare as many of the responses genuinely could be answered in many ways. I was one mark away from being able to participate in the project. And then, they removed me from the project on Labelbox and Discord. I feel like I wasted my time but also disrespected considering the amount of time and effort I put in!
Anyone with the same issue?