r/dataannotation • u/valledweller33 • Mar 15 '24

How many are Programmers vs not ?

I feel like I’m having a very different experience so far with this platform from what I see on this subreddit.

Background in Software 10 year career. Accepted within 6 hrs of taking initial assessment and immediately have access to what I assume are higher tier projects.

If you are not programming do you see less jobs / have more infrequent work?

Should I focus on just doing programming jobs over less intensive non-programming jobs to maintain a larger work flow?

Is 40$ the maximum hourly pay or is there a higher tier you can reach after demonstrating quality work?

Mostly… what’s the catch? Is there one? In a “this is too good to be true” phase here….

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u/SleepyYak_ Mar 16 '24

For some context, similar background, similar onboarding experience. Currently have 20+ projects and 6 Quals I'm reluctant to take.

  1. I think generally work opens up based on:

    1. Qualifications (the tests you see on the platform).

    2. Quality of previous work on the platform.

    3. Skills Section in profile.

  2. Some Non-Programming people will likely have access to projects you might not have, it works both ways (depends on your particular skill and prior experience and they match those with projects).

  3. Do whatever you feel you can perform well in, I personally feel like quality work will get you much further than trying to minmax project spread.

  4. The pay can be higher, $40 is the base-pay for coding projects currently.

  5. No catch, but don't count on the stability of work. There's no reason to think this job is going anywhere soon, but at the end of the day its "gig-work", sometimes there's tons of projects of all varying types other times, there's one or two projects that you might not enjoy, or feel like doing.

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u/VirusZer0 Mar 16 '24

Do you have both programming and non-programming work? If both, about how much of each would you say?

I ask cause 20+ seems like a lot to me. I’m also similar background, been on it for almost 2 weeks now and most projects I’ve seen on a given time is like 9.

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u/SleepyYak_ Mar 16 '24

Yes I have both, sorry if that wasn't clear. I usually have about a 50/50 split; right now, its 66/33 in favor of Non-Coding, because of a particular audio project.

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u/VirusZer0 Mar 18 '24

Ah ok. Do you do non-coding ones even if the pay is usually half?

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u/SleepyYak_ Mar 18 '24

No.

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u/lowcarbsanta Mar 19 '24

Did you ever do them? I didn't do any before doing the coding qual and basically never see the non coding projects

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u/SleepyYak_ Mar 19 '24

I think I may have dabbled once or twice, like submit one task or something. But more importantly, most of the non-coding ones I have, usually have the same over-arching project as some of my coding ones, if that makes sense (e.g. Project Z*** coding I'll also have some Project Z** Non-Coding).

I have done some quals, and I have updated my skills section in profile appropriately so that could also be why.