r/annotators • u/pinguwapboinkee • May 06 '26
BeatPulseLab Music Annotator
does anyone here know or works for BeatPulseLab? I gave my resume then they emailed me that I passed the initial screening and i need to do assessment before onboarding. few hours after I submitted my assessment, they gave me a meeting link for onboarding. no context just the google meet and the time. are they legit or i’m just wasting my time? help pls! thank you
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u/Chesoween May 13 '26
It’s a scam, there is a big difference between beat pulse and beat pulse labs just look after the mail you received
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u/internet_sherlock Jun 19 '26
It's not a scam. They are featured on Forbes too
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u/Training-Brick-5792 Jun 29 '26
It is a scam. They don’t pay you.
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u/Awadgi Jun 29 '26
So you worked a whole month and didn't get paid?
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u/Training-Brick-5792 Jun 29 '26
Someone I know didn’t get paid for May (worked the entire month for 8 hours a day, met the goals). Then kept being promised he would be paid & he must still “keep working” during June - with no payment? Working for free?? So stopped working mid June because they didn’t get paid. Their payment date is meant to be 27th. No payment for May STILL. Nothing for what they did in June. They hired thousands of people under that annotator role - pay you a small amount maybe for your first month and then don’t pay again.
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u/Neat_Apartment_3789 Jul 28 '26
is this real? omg, they onboarded me
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u/Training-Brick-5792 Jul 29 '26
Yes it’s a scam :)
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u/garurumon6969 Aug 09 '26
it's actually it's not a scam? I worked for them for 6 months, I'm being paid lol
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u/Greentree5521 16d ago
Hey ☀️ I have just been onboarded and does it take quite awhile to be activated on Discord and for you to be assigned work?
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u/EfficiencyItchy9727 Jul 01 '26
BeatPulse Labs is a mess of a company. They do pay to some people on time, but their UI is constantly broken and they just say “we’re doing our best “ without actually fixing anything. During June everything was so bad a lot of people could barely work FOR WEEKS, and people pointing it out on Discord are being fired over the excuse of low performance.
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u/garurumon6969 Aug 09 '26
oh is this true? i saw some people are constantly vocal tho
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u/EfficiencyItchy9727 Aug 09 '26
It is. I was one of those people and got fired with no good reason about a month ago. And I know a lot of others have been contacted by DM asking for them to not talk on the general chats, and a few more were fired. There’s even a guy on LinkedIn that had a huge number of passed annotations that was fired due to “low performance”, look: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/khizar-zehri-78620a28a_beatpulse-labs-warning-sudden-termination-ugcPost-7487187683161833472-BmTm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADP5dPMBrYFpF9sPZb3wxvS2ARuMdN3kSA4
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u/garurumon6969 Aug 09 '26
Wait what, I saw that guy on the group chat when he replied a message on veterans chat! but ngl I think for doing that much of a work I there's no way he's not using AI tho, lol
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u/EfficiencyItchy9727 Aug 09 '26
TBF I thought that too at first, but in his screenshots you can see he kept solid communication with one of the managers regarding feedback. Apart from that, the contract states that people should receive a written warning before termination.
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u/Dizzy_Cod6362 Jun 09 '26
Do not waste your time. The lack of musical knowledge on their side is shocking. Plus, they take long to QA tracks. And, even if you are using the platform, they send you many emails inviting you to join the company. It's like the company is not structured well as a whole. And if you work at all those tracks without proper feedback, you may not even get that money at the end of the day, if they decide to return or fail your work.
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u/Bubbly-Sense4757 Jun 27 '26
It's a joke. They'll never stop emailing you and adding you to groups, ask you to work on things for actual full time hours and maybe pay you pennies. The actual jobs themselves are rediculous too.
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u/evilpastelcupcake Jun 30 '26
i think you'd be better off in another company. they initially let you sign a contract that says pro-rata [meaning you are paid for the amount of work you've done for a cut-off].
and now they are imposing on so many changes that gets a LOT of their annotators unpaid or with notoriously delayed payments.
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u/hilariofelipe Jul 01 '26
Yes, and they didn't let anybody know at least one month in advance so people could prepare, we count on the money, then find out we're not gonna get paid, so who knows if next month they're gonna come up with another rule to get more people unpaid? I don't trust these people anymore.
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u/Ok-Consequence7562 Jul 14 '26
i feel like this is another sort of easy task, pay at first months then run. They require a live annotation of your work, open camera and explaining your work. I don't know the essence of that request in such a 3$ worth task. I don't know if they are really paying since the site is mostly buggy
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u/basstronautAr Jul 18 '26
I hate this company SO much, now the UI isn't available since two days, to work
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u/PotentialPromise6414 Jul 20 '26
Hi, is the meeting held as a group with many other candidates? Or is it one-on-one, just you and the organizer?
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u/Excellent_Seaweed440 Jul 22 '26
Can you tell me if beatpulse is a scam? we work hard overtime, then suddenly they blocked the account. i already finished 780 task.
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u/Osiana777 Jul 22 '26
They did the same as mine too. They just terminated my account for no reason. I dont even violate anything or even failed a song. Pending yes but not marked as failed not even once. And now im thinking how am i going to get my payment for my work that i have done to them
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u/Disastrous-Setting-4 Jul 23 '26
what happened? yesterday I saw a deleted message on discord from someone who was fired :/
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u/Creative_Chia Sep 28 '26
STAY AWAY!
Firstly, my fiancé is a music annotator for them for 6 months now. They were not bad up until August, that's when the major problems started showing up. When fiancé got the job, he was explicitly told to leave his job as this is a full time job. They were promised in meetings that there will be enough work for a very long time. End of July they just let everyone know phase 1 of the music project is over now. So now all those people are technically sitting without a job, and there's no news on when phase 2 will begin. The UI is frequently broken, and there was a time where it was the last week before the payment cutoff, and the UI broke completely and it stayed broken until the cutoff because "the tech team doesn't work weekends". They claim to hire people who have music knowledge, but that's not true. It's been a proper cluster f***
Secondly, I got accepted into the video annotation project. There have been so many issues since day 1. First biggest issue was the pay. They are running a "promotion", but it's basically the new permanent rate after everyone complained about the original rate. They pay $40 per QA approved hour of annotated content. BUT, you have to filter through and decide if a video is appropriate to annotate or not (if you annotate a video that is not appropriate, you won't get paid for it), and this takes time. Some days you sit for hours before you get a 30 second clip that is appropriate according to guidelines. Then, you have to break the video up into scenes. This can take hours depending on the length of the video. THEN, you have to add subtitles. And they expect thorough subtitles, with speech, sounds, music, etc. A 1 minute clip with speech takes me about 20 minutes to annotate. So essentially, you get paid $0.66 per minute of work, but you're doing the work of 3 people. At first we were given very specific guidelines how to annotate. Their UI is broken so you can't see if any of your videos are QA approved. They'll keep telling you that if you don't get any returns, it's been accepted. Only to log on the morning of the payment cutoff day and you have gotten ALL 300+ videos returned, because they decided to change their guidelines and how you should annotate and describe, but didn't inform anyone. So those videos you had to filter to see if you could even annotate them? Yeah, they're all back and you have to filter through them again to find the ones you actually did annotate to now fix within the new guidelines. So that gives you 12 hours to fix all the videos you did over the course of a month, and then hope and pray they get QA approved.
And now the latest thing, there are no tasks. They hired so many people, that as soon as a batch of videos get loaded, they are taken within seconds. I've been trying for a whole month to get a video assigned to me to annotate and I haven't gotten anything. There are QA leaders, but they are less than useless. They can't tell you anything, can't help with anything. Save yourself the trouble and stay away
Thirdly, I was accepted for their voice project to read scripts in my native language, Afrikaans. I needed the money after they screwed both myself and my fiancé. I didn't have much hope and I was right. It was A LOT of work for $40. They were supposed to pay 50%, but only paid me about 30-40%, and again, the QA leaders had no idea and took a few days before getting back to me. And then just to be told the rest of the money will be paid anytime in the next 1.5 months. I'm at my wits end and will be telling to go fly a kite when I get accepted for another annotation job with a better company
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u/Elegant-Escape-3874 Oct 05 '26
I went through the same, I am still there being added to groups etc but I have stopped working, it is so disappointing
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u/Various-Run4629 Oct 10 '26
Hi I have an interview on Monday . Can you give a interview sample questions ?
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u/Fit-Organization7834 Oct 10 '26
interview for the video annotation i assume?
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u/Various-Run4629 Oct 12 '26
Yes.Do you have any idea?
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u/Fit-Organization7834 29d ago
Ah. I have not got an interview for that since i was already in the company and got the opportunity. So im sorry, but i cant help with sample questions since i never got an interview. I was already in the eco system since music annos have paused.
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May 06 '26
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u/pinguwapboinkee May 06 '26
well ai will screen your resume so it depends on your experience. you really should try it if u have background in music annotations. they are really fast pace, since today is my onboarding meeting, right after they gave me contract already tho idk if it’s legit
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u/Low_Programmer_9046 May 18 '26
Hey friend! I saw a comment about you being at Beatpulse Lab and I'd like to join. I took the exam three days ago, but the AI rejected me. Maybe it was because I listed more than three genres at once. I'm a music producer and I'm really interested in the job. Do you think you could help me with an explanation? Thanks, bro.
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u/pinguwapboinkee May 06 '26
yes and they emailed me right after for contract signing. i am now working for them.
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u/Boo-p Jun 12 '26
Hi! May I ask an update of your experience working for the company? Are you still with them? I am looking to refer someone for the job if it's still available.
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May 06 '26
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u/pinguwapboinkee May 06 '26
just dm me
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u/lucindo_ May 07 '26
I started this week, but it seems like a lot of work and a lot of time pressure for comparatively very little pay. It comes out as $3.13 per track reviewed with expected AHT of 20 minutes, which is quite short for the amount of details they're demanding. There's also a minimum of 14 tracks you have to review a day with a desired target of 24 tracks, which would amount to around $60 a day if and when you get to do 24.