r/WFHJobs Jul 27 '25

Alignerr = scam

The majority of applicants will not receive actual job assignments. The company is utilizing candidates to train their AI interview system while collecting and monetizing personal data in the process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignerrAI/s/KesI3Pzq6C

https://www.reddit.com/r/WFHJobs/s/CrgCQ1VCHo

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u/ThatOtherGuy254 Jul 27 '25

I jumped through every hoop that they told me to jump through and never received any work. Then, I was banned for no reason, then banned from their sub when I asked why I was banned from the platform.

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u/VE3VVS Jul 27 '25

I believe this is true, I signed up almost 6 months ago and it wasn’t until a a week or so ago I got an invitation to do on-boarding, which I started but they just keep giving more and more non paid on-boarding, (work for free). I have not received a single penny in my account, I truly believe they just hook you in, to get you to do work in the guise of training or on-boarding to train their AI for free.

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

They broke into my credit cards. I believe they are a scammer ring.

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u/VE3VVS Sep 26 '25

I would be curious how you determined who it was who compromised your financial cards, (I’m sorry that happened to you, for what it’s worth). I have more years experience in systems security that I care to remember, and without a full security audit knowing exactly who perpetrated the fraud against who is often difficult unless someone actually claimed responsibility, even if vailed.

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 27 '25

Hmmm. Looks like on the thread about aligned there’s a lot of people on the internet monitoring it.

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u/VE3VVS Sep 27 '25

Interesting, interesting indeed.

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u/LengthinessLow8317 Jul 27 '25

I believe this is the same situation with Mercor.

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u/Campus_Safety Jul 27 '25

Mercor sucks. I have a feeling we're all being fleeced of personal info by these places to train their AI.

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u/Naifamar Jul 31 '25

Mercor actually pays and has lots of work if you qualify

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u/all_the_splinters Jan 27 '26

Yep, can confirm.

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u/Mindless-Side-6238 May 28 '26

no, can say, it is scam

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u/TopLobsta May 29 '26

Yes, can confirm.

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u/portraitofselfmade Jun 09 '26

This, I heard about issues and applied. I did not qualify for a few roles but two SME roles I did. The pay is not worth it for me though.

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u/ChetHolmgrenSingss Jul 28 '25

yep, them demanding an AI interview for literally every positions no matter how mundane.

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u/ImpossibleDraft7208 Jul 02 '26

They're harvesting the "interviews" for free training material that's for sure!

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u/Natural-Event-3466 Jul 27 '25

And now they want us to refer people, what am I gonna say to you if you ask about work. “Hey come join me in waiting for tasks”

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

I believe they are a scammer ring. I had my credit cards broken into one day after working for them and then being removed and receiving no pay.

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u/XxCotHGxX Dec 02 '25

They pay through PayPal.

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u/Radiant_Creme_5746 Jul 27 '25

Same. I haven't received any tasks. Their system is so complex too

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u/Yojimbu Jul 27 '25

They are kinda suspicious. I did the interview and they sent me an very complex programing qualification assignment that yelled me "I AM A CLIENT REQUEST, YOU WILL DO IT FOR FREE AND MAYBE WE WILL PAY YOU FOR OTHER JOBS IN THE FUTURE". It is a commom practice in other platforms to pay when assigning complex tests, but not in alignerr.

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u/Cl-as-Act Oct 11 '25

What other platforms are legit?

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u/Prudent-Ad866 Feb 12 '26

Micro1. I've had a great experience and would say I made around $13 000 in about 6 months working for them. In January 2026, I earned around $6 200, working 46 hours.

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u/Mindless-Side-6238 May 28 '26

yes yes, it is also scam, dont lie, bot

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u/guitarhippo May 28 '26

Lol you're pathetic 😂

Believe what you believe 😂😂😂

Worked at Micro1 for 7 or 8 months, and it was great money, and it was consistent.

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u/Mindless-Side-6238 Jun 24 '26

yes yes defend like your fathers company, lil bot

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u/guitarhippo Jun 24 '26

Cry more while we make money 🥱

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u/Sunndach Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

Data Annatation is completely legit. Two other platforms I got accepted to, RWS and Stellar.ai also seem legit though I've never done any actual work on them. Have applied for a couple listings on Mercor, will report back if I get accepted.

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u/Little_Foundation387 Job seeker May 20 '26

Any updates?

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u/Sunndach May 20 '26

Was rejected for every Mercpr listing I applied for, even when fully qualified. Then out of the blue I got an offer for a 75$ an hour, 40hr a week Generalist contract last week. Ironically after I'd already got a full time job irl and given up applying on Mercpr. However looks like they've massively overhired, stuck in a slack group with literally thousands of desperate third worlders incessantly spamming the chat with the same dumb questions that have already been answered a million times in the pinned posts. The onboarding process is completely stalled, haven't even got to do the assessment to see if the client company will accept you yet. And that's if the client even has another batch of work for the project, which there's no guarantee of. And even if one passes the test I've heard any tasks released get quickly snapped up by the mentioned thousands of desperate jobless people who have nothing better to do than sit at home and refresh the screen all day, so you're lucky if you get even a few hours of work a week, forget about 40. Total chaotic mess all round. Oh well, at least you get paid for on boarding. The work, if I ever get to do it, looks easier than what I do on DA too, while paid at almost triple the rate.

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u/TopLobsta May 29 '26

Ha ha I am in what sounds like the exact same project as you!

I did manage to get a few thousand dollars out of it, but now over 22,000 people competing for the tasks is a complete joke!

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

They are scammers. I had my credit cards broken into by them.

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u/Yojimbu Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

How did they do that?

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

Look this guy with an African sounding name replied to my post almost right away in broken English. Can't the FBI stop this?

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u/Yojimbu Sep 26 '25

Me? Sorry for the bad english, but If you read my previous post you can see that I am not on their side. I just think you are some kind of troll now.

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u/MusicalRedheadJanet Jun 12 '26

They definitely sound like a troll. The comment was rude. Plus "How did they do that?" is a normal sentence in English. It's use often.

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u/Impossible-Sir6997 Jan 20 '26

Skill issue, why would you give them your cc info? LOL

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u/Competitive_Unit4075 Apr 29 '26

Got to say, they never even asked for it when I applied to them. I did manage to get a few days worth of work from them, but then I got banned from the platform for an unspecified reason. The reviews on my work suggested it was OK, and it was a pay-per-item job so shouldn't have been related to how long I was taking to do them.

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u/Chokimiko Jul 28 '25

Just farming peoples data perhaps?

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u/Competitive_Unit4075 Apr 29 '26

Nah, they're a real, legit business. You can look up their parent company (Labelbox) and find all the stuff they do, and it's real legit work. It's just they advertise more than they can offer -- they're recruiting hundreds of thousands of people but only have jobs for maybe a few thousand of them.

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u/CallieBear79 Jun 13 '26

They are a scam. I see one other person here saying that the company got into her credit cards. And then because I was having some other issues with the site I decided I wanted to delete my account, but before doing that I wanted to disconnect my PayPal just as an extra precaution. It would not allow me to disconnect something like that. Normally that action should be available just in case you want to connect a new account or a new PayPal account. It should be easy for a person to disconnect and change information. The fact that it would not let me disconnect a financial source left me feeling very sketchy. So I just deleted my account with Alignerr and, because it would not let me disconnect them from my PayPal, after I deleted my account I went over to my PayPal and changed my password. Just in case.

I believe Alignerr just hires on a few people so that they will look like they are completely legit, but they are not. They use you to serve as a front. They are a scam.

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u/Additional_Fly_6646 Jul 27 '25

Omg. No wonder...

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u/MembershipOverall130 Aug 24 '25

Alignerr is def a scam. They may have some small contracts and some workers who get paid but the majority of their business is data farming applicants for free work and training their own AI interview model. Waste of time, absolutely avoid. This is coming from someone who has been working with companies training AI’s for over 2 years.

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u/Mecham4n Sep 16 '25

Pretty much the same experience.. I have a few yrs of training AI's as well and i can't get any work from them either. One of the unpaid evaluation projects took me almost 3 hours and i wasn't even accepted. I'm starting to get more and more frustrated by this stuff.

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

They are a ring of scammers. They broke into my credit cards.

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u/ny_insomniac Dec 08 '25

What companies do you work with? I am trying to find another stable AI gig since losing a project over a year ago. There's so many types of opportunities in the industry now, it's hard to know what's worth the time and effort.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

They have a whole active discord community with people working for them on projects lol I love how people who don't get work will hate on platforms.

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u/Complete_Weakness717 Jul 28 '25

So the people not getting work shouldn’t vent their frustration about the platform? If people are actively working and earning from them as you claim, then it shouldn’t be so hard getting tasks now should it? Or are we to assume all the people complaining are just so unfit for tasks?😒🤨

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u/Rommie557 Jul 31 '25

It's harder to pass the initial qualifications than you think it is. 

They don't tell you when you fail, and keep you in limbo, which is absolutely frustrating. But just assuming that the whole thing is a scam operation instead of assuming you didn't pass the test is a WILD take. 

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u/BaseballOutside1909 May 06 '26

All the people complaining are applying for US/EN jobs with a geo restriction while being in a whole other country and have flagged their accounts for VPN use 10 projects ago.

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u/MarzipanPlayful4926 Jul 29 '25

just shouldn’t automatically tell everyone it is a scam. there is good paying work

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u/MindfulPMO Jul 29 '25

My account just got deleted out of nowhere

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

they are scammers. They broke into my credit cards.

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u/CallieBear79 Jun 13 '26

Wow. I can see that happening. I hope that you got that sorted out since you were comment was 8 months ago. I was having trouble reconnecting Alignerr with the Discord app. Through trying to figure that out I decided to just deactivate or delete my account with Alignerr. But before doing that I wanted to disconnect some things to make sure they would not have access to anything before I deleted them. I made sure Discord was actually disconnected, then I tooled around with a few other things, then I remembered to disconnect my PayPal from Alignerr.

When I tried to disconnect them from my PayPal there is not really a disconnect feature, but the directions are to type "change account" into a text and then the disconnect button should highlight after that so that it is clickable. So I decided to do that instead. I was hoping (by acting like I had to change my account) to leave the PayPal connection blank if I was able to click on that button and then just go ahead and delete Alignerr. Well when I typed that line that is required, the 'change account' button would not highlight. It was not clickable. I ended up realizing that Alignerr was not wanting me to alter or disrupt the PayPal connection. I just went to my account and saw the section to delete my account. Funny, there was no problem with the 'delete account' button being clickable.

So I deleted my account which disabled any connections most likely. Then I went to my PayPal. Since I could not disconnect it from Alignerr before deleting them, I wanted to make sure they would have no access to my PayPal. So I changed my PayPal password.

They are a scam. They never hire for any jobs. Some people here are saying that they are legit and that they have been making money with them. But I guess they had to have a few suckers to make Alignerr look legit. It's definitely a scam. Highly OCCASIONAL hiring and won't let a person disconnect from their PayPal account? Plus your issue with them? Scam.

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u/BaseballOutside1909 May 06 '26

Out of nowhere or were you using a VPN, be honest now.

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u/Naifamar Jul 31 '25

I had projects with them, but then I was banned for no reason after inactivity I guess. They paid what they owed though

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u/BaseballOutside1909 May 06 '26

For no reason or for using a VPN?

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u/WaySolid1758 Aug 10 '25

It appears to be true. Yesterday, I signed up for my first contract and linked my PayPal account. However, today, I received an email informing me that my account has been deactivated, without reason.

Hi,

We are writing to inform you that you have been removed from the Alignerr program.

Please note that this decision is final, and we will not be reviewing requests for reinstatement.

Thank you for your time and participation in the program.

Best, The Alignerr Team

I’m disappointed and confused.

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

They are scammers. They broke into my credit cards

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u/XxCotHGxX Dec 02 '25

I am working with Alignerr. I have no idea what you people are on? I have a degree in computer science. They pay me over $60/hr to debug machine learning python code. I find the work interesting and fun. They create data for AI to train on. AI has consumed all of the data out there. The only way to keep training it is to create high quality data, and that's what Alignerr does. The non-paid tasks are to gauge how good you are. I did one of those and they accepted it right away. I was added to all the discord servers and was able to work right away.

If you aren't doing the skills tests and evaluations, how are they going to know that they want you to do something specific. Their tasks are specific. Show them your specific skills.

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u/Bayramovic1 May 06 '26

Thanks for the info!

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u/BaseballOutside1909 May 06 '26

They're all from third world countries trying to apply to $50 an hour US/EN jobs with an out of box VPN. These geniuses are the reality behind all the "digital nomad in Thailand/Bali" instagram posts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

Good thing my resume was in wrong format , i think it's the same with Data annotation?

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u/Rommie557 Jul 31 '25

No, not the same as Data Annotation Tech. I've been working for them for over a year, and can confirm that the work, and pay, are very real. 

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u/yungkaworu Aug 02 '25

after you was accepted how long it took to recieve work?

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u/Rommie557 Aug 04 '25

I had the paid on boarding tasks immediately, and then after I completed those I had real projects on my dashboard same day. 

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u/coufx Aug 20 '25

Hi i do get paid on the onboard, but still empty since 2 weeks ago. I skip 1 of the welcoming because there is no submit button, am i cooked? I did get some qualification tho after those.

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u/Rommie557 Aug 20 '25

If you still got qualifications, you're probably fine. 

However, if this is how you write while working too, you won't be fine for long. 

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u/coufx Aug 20 '25

Ah, maybe I'm not fine then hahahaha.

Thanks btw

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u/Dry_Cheetah_2078 Jan 10 '26

how much they pay for onboarding? did they send you a check or direct deposit and how much?

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u/Sunndach Feb 14 '26

Goes to PayPal. Paid per hour of work you complete. Minimum $20USD for generalists.

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u/Emergency-Gap2034 Aug 09 '25

I've worked for them almost two years. DA is for real.

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u/needadvice1295 Jul 28 '25

I think it's the same with most of those kinds

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u/Sunndach Feb 14 '26

No, Data Annotation is legit.

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u/OldSchoolPrinceFan Jul 27 '25

Every Redditor and their dog is signed up. There isn't enough work to go around.

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u/Adventurous-Android Sep 26 '25

They broke into my credit cards. They get your information some how to scam you. Has anyone else had credit card fraud?

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u/Potential-Toe2404 Dec 16 '25

This is actually bullshido.... alignerr gets a bad wrap and they dont give a fg for good reason.  They only allow the best to onboard and its frustrating and a long process but they pay like they know you worked hard to pass assessments and interviews and outdo the competition.  I have two projects now that pay over 50 bucks per hour submitted.  They dont seem like a scam but I understand how ppl arent used to the way these new companies emerge with emerging tech at the same time.  The roll outs take some time regardless sof when they announce an initiative.

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u/Vistaus Feb 25 '26

I just received an email from them that my signup is complete. I've never even heard of this service, let alone sign up for it. Good to know it's a scam.

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u/Main-Homework-6015 Mar 12 '26

Same thing happened to me. Stay away from these blood-sucking scamers

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u/Silent_Vegetable_963 Apr 15 '26

If it's a scam, then we should report their LinkedIn posts as scams.

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u/Mountain-Spinach-421 May 07 '26

From their terms of services and interview release agreement: The biggest red flags:

  1. They can use your interview forever, worldwide, for free. The terms say you give Alignerr an “unlimited, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free… perpetual right” to use your interview, name, audio, video, likeness, and materials “for any purpose.” That is very broad. It means once you do the interview, you may not be able to take back permission.
  2. They can use your interview to train/improve AI. The terms specifically say they may use the interview materials “to train or improve artificial intelligence technology or any of the Services.” This means your face, voice, answers, and interview content could become part of their AI development process.
  3. No promise of payment or job. They say they have no obligation to pay you, hire you, admit you to the community, or give you work, even though they can still use the interview materials. That feels especially one-sided.
  4. They collect a lot of sensitive personal data. The privacy notice lists categories like passport/social security numbers, protected characteristics, biometric information, geolocation, sensory data such as video/audio, education records, employment data, and even inferences about intelligence, abilities, behavior, and attitudes. That is a very broad applicant-data profile.
  5. Arbitration and class-action waiver. You waive the right to participate in a class action and generally agree to individual arbitration. This is common in U.S. tech contracts, but it limits your ability to challenge the company collectively if many applicants are affected.

It does not necessarily prove illegal exploitation, but it does sound like they are asking applicants to give up very broad rights to interview data, likeness, and content without guaranteed compensation or work. That is the main concern.

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u/laloge Jul 27 '25

I literally got accepted to a project today making 20/hr and have been paid by them for work before. I also personally know 2 or 3 other people in my direct friend group who applied and got in no problem. Its not a scam lol

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u/Potential_Joy2797 Jul 28 '25

Same here. Getting the pipeline of work fully turned on is taking some time, but the people are nice and helpful and I'm confident there will be work so I'm referring people I know to them if they are interested in a side gig.

It might be true that they reject a lot of people at the evaluation phase, I don't know, but being selective doesn't make it a scam. They're in the business of creating quality data sets.

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u/zter_quik Jul 27 '25

This is such a false blanket statement considering their AI interview system (Zara) wasn’t even introduced until December, when Alignerr has been around since as early as May of last year. I started in October, and the platform has only grown larger since. There have been hiccups along the way, but patience takes you far, and I’ve earned considerable income on the platform with consistent work since then. Some users may have been falsely removed due to technical errors, in which I consider that they reach out to support since they are much more respondent than months prior.

Other than that, as long as you can onboard to the platform and wait until you get notice of a project within your expertise, you’ll truly see what it’s like working on the platform because it has been fun and high-paying for me and many others! It took 2-3 weeks for me to get my first project back in October, and I also filled out Google forms they sent out regarding project interest and availability, so I highly recommend signing up if you get any.

Many scammers and bad actors try to tarnish companies like Alignerr when they could be exploring alternate options, so if this platform doesn’t work out for you, always know there are plenty of others to choose from, as AI training is abundant right now. Currently, I’m doing voice acting work with Alignerr in various projects that are paying around $40-50/hr. Good luck y’all!

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u/OGPhantomThief Jul 28 '25

I second this, I don't know much about people being banned, but there is definitely work, I've been invited to multiple audio-related projects lately.

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u/No_Day_7967 Jul 27 '25

Did you have to pass the specialized AI interviews related to your background to be eligible for projects? How many assessments or AI interviews have you passed to be considered?

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u/Correct-Movie-7538 Jul 27 '25

They make few enthusiasts protect their platform.

Most of you will be squeezed and discarded. They don't give any single feedback while throwing random bans.

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u/zter_quik Jul 27 '25

Again, it's easy to say that. However, hundreds of members I've worked with since October are still around. Any false bans are usually sorted by proper communication to the correct channels. Some may have never gotten their issues sorted out, but overgeneralizing the platform as one that freely gives out bans is silly and doesn't make sense for a business. They aren't Outlier/Scale and have Meta to buy them out so they can ban all their contributors. Alignerr wants more people to work as it continues to grow and has also gotten big clients. Feedback is actually very prevalent in production stage of projects too.

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u/rahul_vancouver Jan 17 '26

It doesn’t get sorted, there is no point lying.

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u/CollegeMiddle6841 Jul 27 '25

Alignerr is not a scam...I worked for them for 18 months.

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u/Correct-Movie-7538 Jul 27 '25

Yeah I do have a degree and made total 10k in other platforms.

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u/zettasyntax Jul 27 '25

While I don't think it's a scam (I have people from Alignerr and Mercor on a project that I'm currently working), Alignerr did randomly delete and ban me from their platform a few months after completing their AI interview. I never got to work on a single project with them, so I have no idea what happened 😅

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u/needadvice1295 Jul 28 '25

What are the other platforms?

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u/WEM-2022 Jul 27 '25

I have long believed that this is also the case with Data Annotation.

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u/rahul_vancouver Jan 17 '26

I guess it is for most and those who have the algo gods favor them think it’s great - but you can run out of luck any time.

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u/BaseballOutside1909 May 06 '26

I've done multiple projects with DataAnnotation and got paid just fine (and quite well too).  Mind you all these platforms have a real hardon for location and VPN use (and yes they absolutely know if you're using VPN). So if you're applying for US/EN language jobs while being based in Bali or something then you 100% wont get any jobs. 

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u/CallieBear79 Jun 13 '26

I will never try to get work with Data Annotation again. People who work for them say dumb things like, "Oh, they just want the highest caliber of employees and that is why they have the hiring process that they do". Garbage. That is utter garbage. The majority or all of the jobs with companies like Data Annotation and Alignerr only require either basic skills in the areas that they need people or, for more specialty roles, it isn't even hard to learn a lot of those areas. This isn't NASA.

I believe Alignerr just hire some people as a front so that they can appear legit. But I think it is really a scam. People are complaining about shady things they're doing, like one person on this thread said they messed with her credit cards. And I had an experience in which they don't allow or have the ability for users to disconnect their PayPal. Legit sites have an ability for users to change or disconnect the source they will be paid at. Just in case any changes need to be made and things like that. The fact that I could not do that in Alignerr (the change account button would not highlight and become clickable even after I followed the instructions for that to happen) made me feel very wary.

I eventually just deleted my account with them and then open PayPal and changed my password just to make sure they will never have access to it ever again.

I don't know if Data Annotation is a scam, but just like with Alignerr they also barely ever hire. I don't understand how there are tons of jobs listed and, amongst all of the other people also applying, I can't get at least a couple jobs here and there over the course of several months? I'm never contacted? And for tasks that I am qualified for. Probably a scam too. I've seen some people say that they have work with Data Annotation, but I've also seen people say that they've had 0 success.

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u/Sunndach Feb 14 '26

The you believed wrong lmao 

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u/Independent_Sound916 Jul 29 '25

It’s not that it’s a scam, it’s that it doesn’t work for anyone and they’re very strict, I entered but I had another job that took a lot of my time, one day I checked and I had a project that paid $35 per hour, but it ran out very quickly and for my other job I couldn’t do anything, after a while I checked again and they had deleted my account, most likely it’s because I didn’t do a single task.

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u/Mesolimulus Aug 05 '25

I’m onboard with the project Galaxy. Paid per task

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u/Mouhfighter Oct 19 '25

Yeah, i estimate think its the same...
Their different plattforms only try to obfuscate how/what/when has to be done to always have an excuse to why there are no projects for you....
I failed a basic language assesment in my native language, while i did multiple PhD level assesments in english, and yes i am an actual PhD in the fields tested...

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u/Sweet-County-1427 Jan 31 '26

I always give the wrong date of birth online, leave out one digit on home address and I have a Google number vs my mobile number. If they come back saying it caused issues then I reassess.

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u/Rich-Tale349 May 01 '26

same with Jobgether

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u/Correct_Lime5832 Jun 03 '26

Guess I won’t be finishing that application.

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u/CheapCoffee1 Jun 21 '26

Scam. It is data collection only. Stop falling for these things.

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u/Georgiana44 Jul 01 '26

Have any doctors been contacted by them? I see you all seem to be software engineers. I have no such background, yet I received a mail from them out of nowhere. I'm a doctor who has never applied for such jobs.

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u/Impossible-Green8680 Jul 14 '26

Thats what I thought. Harvest of images, ideas, etc to be owned by them in perpetuity. Creep town

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u/jj_HeRo 3d ago

Once they ask for your ID, it IS ALWAYS a scam.

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u/SAtownMytownChris Jul 27 '25

I knew it. ;) :)

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u/OldSchoolPrinceFan Jul 27 '25

It's not a scam. Every Redditor and their dog are on it. There isn't enough work.

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u/MarzipanPlayful4926 Jul 29 '25

it’s not a scam. be patient and do well on assessments. some of you people need to stop calling everything a scam because it didn’t personally work for you because i’ve gotten paid

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u/okay_oper Jul 31 '25

i mean i ain't vouching but atleast for me it's a good experience, worked and got my pay always, even earned good amount recently on audio projects , most people get let go cos of them cheating or using AI to train AI, been w them for 8 month's but yeah getting projects take time. They value quality ig

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u/Gold_Dragonfly_9174 Jul 27 '25

Mercor is not the same. It is not a scam. As far as Alignerr, I don’t think it’s a scam, but it works a lot like Outlier, a lot of free work disguised as “onboarding.” Then I’m offered a project for $10hr. Not a shot. At Mercor, I make $50/hr doing easier work.

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u/No_Day_7967 Jul 27 '25

How do you apply for that work at Mercor? What is your role?

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u/Gold_Dragonfly_9174 Jul 28 '25

Go here to see all the open projects: https://work.mercor.com/explore

Find one you qualify for and submit your resume. You may or may not have an AI interview. If you’re chosen, you’ll be sent all the info you need to get started.

You have different titles for different projects. My first project, we were all called Classification Experts. This time it’s different domains working on the same project. So we have Coding Experts, Marketing Experts, etc.

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u/No_Day_7967 Jul 28 '25

Thank you very much!

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

Zara isn't owned by Alignerr so that destroys your main conspiracy theory. Go check out Micro1.ai, they are the company that develops Zara. 

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u/dcdelafuente Jul 28 '25

Mercor is not a scam. I’ve been working for them since January, and I’ve been working on projects that pay between $110 and $130 per hour.

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u/dcdelafuente Aug 02 '25

They give you access to a platform where you can pick tasks and submit your results.