Awful work, awful management. And the positive reviews are fake - Generative Ai Associate Innodata Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

average pay, average benefits. supportive TLs and QAs but even they have very limited knowledge

Cons

- Constantly changing guidelines about how they tracked our performance, so nothing is ever good enough as they can’t make up their minds about how they tracked our performance. - TLs are supportive but at the same time mislead you into believing you’re doing great until suddenly one day you aren’t. - They constantly acknowledge that there are gaps in data about performance tracking, but will still give you the stats which they’ll never tell you how it’s calculated. - No paid breaks in the day, and they constantly expect you to work throughout your shift because the system kicks you out after 8 minutes of inactivity. So basically, you can’t even take a bathroom break without clocking out and increasing your work day by however much time you spend in the bathroom. - One of the group heads boasted about squeezing work lunches in, when people complained about the lack of lunch breaks. - They expect you to stop moving, breathing and eating during the 8 hour work shift because if you do, they’ll send threatening emails/messages without any consideration that we are humans working for them and not machines that they expect to be plugged in for 8 hours non-stop. I can really just keep going on because there is an endless list of things that are wrong about this company and the kind of work they make you do.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Some flexibility Work from home

Cons

One thing I really didn’t enjoy about the guidance: our client sets a bench mark of having 85% “utilization”. Basically stating that of the 40 hours worked, 85% of that must be in “production code”, so about 35ish hours a week. The rest of the time can be spent reviewing emails, guidelines, etc. The project manager basically had management tell people that they could be 2.5 hours in other codes, and about 37.5 should be in production. If this is a decision from a client, then great, but it seemed to me the project manager was just trying to get every little bit of production possible out of people. I’m under the impression that if employees are treated like people and given proper breaks, the quality of work will be way better. If you force them to sit for 7.5 hours or a 8 hour day in front of a screen, the quality will be worse. The client says it’s 85% utilization, so why are we telling our employees they need to be in production for 37.5 hours out of the day? It just seems dishonest. Data annotation work can be tough and some of the tasks are repetitive and can take a lot of concentration. Half of the admin, forgets what it’s like to work in the queues, and drive these numbers blindly. Meanwhile, half of their job consists of chatting on teams all day.

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