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What is the best part of working at the company?
Flexibility and integrity of most of the project managers. If you qualify high enough you get to work with researchers and pilot projects that create the next batch of full projects. Most years they do not make excuses for a problem except when a client is being difficult most of which are United States companies.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Market forces or difficult clients causing ramp ups that are inappropriate for the data asked. Appen does that, but often it gets rerun after the report comes back. You have to answer in less than 24 hours, test, and work, which is part-time work, so you have to change schedules. That often is Friday and the weekend so they can have the data on Monday.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most emails and project managers are proper if in the East or Australia. When Dallas did projects, they had the mystique of Texas. California group short, sweet, and let's get it done. New managers do a good job, but have that first client meeting, and from Australia are totally frank about what happened, and we do it again. England is incredibly formal, but high-level work is done there, so you are taught that protocol, which is useful during turbulent times. China has a specific protocol you MUST follow, and you get hospitality; otherwise, you get the treatment. You can opt out of a project and once in if there is a conflict of interest or interferes with a license you can let them know and is not a problem.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It is freelance project work. Project invitation often comes by email. You sign up then invited to test most years. If you pass you are put in a pool and you wait for a work email. If it is a long term project you will have a rate and quality to make and will have about 4 hours of work a day and you will have quizzes to maintain quality. If a short project it is a few days or a week depends on the personality of the project manager. California crew is the quickest. Guideline in the tool, take the exam, go to work. England projects take the longest as in security checks, several exams checking your language proficiency, your first test, web papers on protocol, then the researcher saying, final exam and go to work and constant quality checks, but they are 98 percent level and an honor and privilege to work with.

I was recommended to join appen for a little side cash. In the beginning, there were loads of projects available to join with a wide range of pay (either based on task completion or hours worked). The pay wasn't much but depending on your combination of jobs,  you could still make a fair bit of cash. Unfortunately Appen seems to also have been affected by the big tech slow downs so jobs aren't as plentiful as they once were. 

You are required to work as a consultant, which is how they get away with pay rates well below the minimum wage, depending on the task this can be less than $1 per hour.  

The quality control is opaque, unquestionable, and inconsistent to the point of being incomprehensible.

The guidelines are more often than not very badly written.

There is much less work available than you are led to believe, and the claimed remuneration is, frankly, lies.

Do not work for these people.

Project focused work for a phonetic laboratory. I was phonetically transscribing German content for a top secret project conducted by an unknown car manufacturer. The project was to faciltate the  interface software between the computer and the GPS components within the vehicle.

This is the worst company I have ever worked with. Salary is low for most projects. 
They say it great for freelance people, but all they do it use your time with countless "exams" that get them free translations and transcripts. 
There is no way I will ever work with this company again.

Excellent work from home opportunities. Able to work from home and complete your work assignment within the required time frames.  Easy job tasks and work schedule.

Your first job in the field is not going to be your best. This was a learning experience of what it is like to be on an entry level, temporary position on a major social media project. It was my first glance. The people were okay. The job was okay. Management was nice on my project.

I really enjoyed the time spent working with them. The job was interesting and the working is flexible.
The salary is highly attractive but the job is contract based and there is no job security.

After 23 months with Appen I can say that the work is interesting as it helps me to analyze how various audiences use social media and understand their demographic and behavioral profile.

At first, the pay was good and after a year they offered much lower pay per project. They even ended an existing project just to start the same project with less pay. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Associate project manager 3 salaries reported	$58,895 per year
Program manager 3 salaries reported	$103,000 per year
Linguist 3 salaries reported	$73,000 per year
Data collector 3 salaries reported	$56,000 per year
Transcriptionist 1 salary reported	$27.03 per hour

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