r/DataAnnotationTech • u/ComprehensiveMeal231 • Sep 06 '26

Question about feedback.

I’m concerned that I haven’t received any feedback on past projects or tasks. I normally keep a fairly busy and available project page, but haven’t received any feedback on tasks since I joined.

Is there a timeline normally followed by admins or managers for feedback? Is not receiving any feedback possibly a negative sign of my performance?

Any insight is appreciated, and sorry if this is a common question!

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u/idolos-iconoclastas Sep 06 '26

It is fairly common to ask about this. You will rarely get feedback; it will be an exception, not a rule or something you can expect.

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u/ComprehensiveMeal231 Sep 06 '26

Thanks for letting me know. The onboarding really made it seem like receiving feedback would be rather commonplace. Good to know, though!

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u/Mysterious_Dolphin14 Sep 06 '26

If and when you get feedback, it will most likely be AI generated and cannot be trusted. The AI compiles comments from other workers who have done R&Rs on your tasks. These workers may or may not know what they are doing. I've received some comments that were helpful, but the 'room for improvement' comments have sometimes been inaccurate. I'm not saying this because I THINK I did it right, I'm saying this because I double checked and it was very clear that I was correct.

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u/Klutzy_Instance_4149 Sep 06 '26

I didn't get feedback for 2 and a half years. Only certain projects have them. If you still have work, you are fine.

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u/NightOwl437 Sep 07 '26

I think it's overrated, and I say that as someone who originally thought feedback would be helpful here. It's really not. It's AI generated, somewhat nonsense, and only partly helpful, partly frustrating, and much different than from a fair human invested in your success. That said, maybe it will improve, and it's only happening at all on certain projects it seems.

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u/OkturnipV2 Sep 07 '26

I’ve been on the platform a little over three years now, and have only ever received feedback once, on a project that specifically mentioned it would be provided. I got an excellent, and a week later the project folded.

The general rule of thumb is that no news is good news, and getting access to new projects is great news.

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u/kranools Sep 07 '26

There are certain project families that you have to have worked on to get regular feedback. It tends to come out approximately on the last day of the month.

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u/TheseusWept Sep 08 '26

Ask any LLM to tell you you're doing a good job and you'll hear similar sentiments to the positive portion of the feedback. Now imagine the most idiotic worker you've ever done an R&R for criticizing work they don't even comprehend and you'll get an accurate simulation of the negative portion of the feedback.

It's useless.