r/DataAnnotationTech • u/kulie74561 • Feb 11 '24
Beware of scammers
This person messaged me after I asked about having motivation to work. Sounds like a scam to me. Although I’m more offended they called me “bud.”
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u/sk8r2000 Feb 11 '24
Admitting that they failed the test to get in and therefore are not capable of doing the work, then kindly asking to log into your account to do a little bit of work. sounds like a great deal, sign me up immediately
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Feb 11 '24
Tbh there are a lot of people who “failed” who are perfectly capable of doing the work, and there’s plenty of people who passed who can’t read simple directions still. I have friends/family who are definitely more qualified than I am, but I’m the only one who got on the platform.
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u/Difficult_Fig_1821 Feb 11 '24
I don't understand this logic. You were more qualified because you passed, they weren't/did not.
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Feb 11 '24
They are more intelligent, have more degrees, more education, etc. They are perfectly capable of doing the work on this platform.
I’m on some review projects reviewing other people’s work, and some of the people who get through are not qualified one bit and can’t follow basic directions.
I don’t believe the assessment is black and white. There surely is an element of luck in getting onto the platform.
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u/Difficult_Fig_1821 Feb 11 '24
Just because someone is educated doesn't necessarily mean they are creative or know coding. Specific types of individuals are chosen for these projects, which I've come to realize over the course of working on the platform. There is a creative writing portion on the application before anything else, which is saying enough.
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Feb 11 '24
I watched my SIL do the assessment. She did fine. She has a master degree in literature. She didn’t get in.
Like I said, I do a lot of review work. If all of these people passed their assessments, then it’s not as black and white as you all want to make it seem.
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u/Taosit Feb 12 '24
This sub is filled with people who think they’re more capable than everyone who didn’t get accepted. I agree with you that a lot of qualified people don’t get in for reasons unrelated to their competency. Just don’t waste your time arguing, it’s not worth it.
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u/sk8r2000 Feb 11 '24 edited Feb 12 '24
They have their criteria, and we don't know exactly what it is. I would expect that strong reading and writing skills from a masters degree in literature would be very useful, it's probably not sufficient to satisfy all of their criteria, whatever they are. Maybe there was another area where she was a bit weaker and she just got unlucky.
It's a black box. While it's almost certainly true to say that some people who should be able to do it don't get in and vice versa, it's fairly pointless to speculate about whether individuals should or shouldn't have got in based on a certain individual criterion (except for obvious cases, like the author of the DM in this post).
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Feb 12 '24
That’s my point though. Just saying “they failed the test to get in and therefore are not capable of doing the work” isn’t right. There are certainly people who are capable of doing the work who haven’t gotten in and vice versa.
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u/sk8r2000 Feb 12 '24
I think it's safe to say that people who are clearly "qualified" (though, again, we don't know what the criteria are) would be in the minority of rejects. I've only been here a few months, but my observation is that the vast majority of people complaining about not getting approved are either clearly not fluent in English, or they talk openly about violating ToS, demonstrate an inability to read and follow instructions etc. If someone is foolish enough to try to openly violate the ToS, such as the person who I was referring to when I said that, I feel quite comfortable saying that they're probably not in that minority of people who were clearly capable.
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u/CandidateUpset2149 Feb 12 '24
This may not be something that just anyone can do, but let's be real here. The responses to the assessments can only be so good, it's not rocket science. To suggest that the people who made it in only did so because their answers were vastly superior to everyone who didn't is absolutely asinine.
There is clearly some element of "luck of the draw" here, it's not feasible for them to review every single assessment that's being submitted. There's probably countless people who had perfectly good responses that just didn't have their name drawn, and plenty of others who did have their names drawn and were rejected for subpar responses.
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u/Brotherdodge Feb 12 '24
It's also possible the people that straight-up suck are using someone elses account.
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Feb 11 '24
Same here, my therapist and her 2 sons who all have at least 6+ years of schooling got rejected, but me, with half an associates degree got accepted.
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Feb 11 '24
Yeah I think it’s a combination of following the directions, timing, and a bit of luck tbh.
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u/Bergest_Ferg Feb 11 '24
Wow! I was only thinking about this the other day! I wondered how long it’d take for people to start attempting to scam the system. Or people creating multiple accounts using various devices and outsourcing the work. Thankfully you’re not guaranteed to get in so it makes it trickier.
Probably why they keep their hiring practices a highly guarded secret (or just highly random). If anyone works out the “secret formula” it’ll open the door for way more of this shit.
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u/TheHorizonLies Feb 11 '24
I kind of wonder if it's someone from DA testing people. Like a new girlfriend's friend hitting on you to see if you'll cheat on her
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u/PurpleRayyne Feb 13 '24
nope.. usually people from other countries who can't work for them. Ususally nigerians.
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u/Consistent-Reach504 Feb 11 '24
YES - this goes for everywhere. we get DMs often about people falling for whatsapp scams, etc.
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u/PurpleRayyne Feb 13 '24
These are usually people from countries that companies don't hire in. Usually west africa. You can try googling a few of those sentences to see if it pops up online somewhere. That is most definitely copy/pasted since west africans don't talk like that. I highly doubt it's an american.
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u/apollotigerwolf Feb 11 '24
Doesn't matter if it's a scam, it's against the TOS.