Dangerous scam - personal data theft warning - AI Data Trainer for Motion Graphics Micro1 Employee Review

1.0
Apr 15, 2025
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Pros

None that I am aware of

Cons

The positive reviews on here are almost certainly all fake. You have been warned. The scam: They advertise for a WIDE range of different positions (programmer etc), under the guise of being a recruiter (i.e. middleman) for companies who want to hire experts to train their AI data models. These positions are advertised as full time salaried positions at those companies. In my case, the position advertised was for an expert in Motion Graphics to train AI. The scam is that there is no other company recruiting. Micro1 is the only company in play here. Micro1 asks all applicants to take a ~30 min test/interview - not held by a human, but with an AI chatbot. This test is recorded (video and audio) using your webcam, under the pretense of "ensuring you do no cheat and are who you say you are". In actuality, you are handing over free use of your likeness and voice, plus any other data they are able to scrape, in perpetuity, to train their AI models or to sell to other AI vendors. It is a foul scam and one of which everyone involved should be deeply ashamed. This is all clearly outlined in the small print of their T&Cs. Many people have posted online who regretted taking the online interview, or who realized it was a scam partway through and bailed. I was fortunate enough to realize the scam having read their T&Cs, and not take the video interview. Bottom line: they trick people into interviews and then steal their likeness, voice, and any other data they can get their hands on to enrich themselves - the advertised jobs do not exist. Source: I applied for one of their jobs and found this out for myself after reading the small print. A quick google will find you hundreds of corroborating stories. Do not go near this company.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

A total legit company, It is a pleasure to work with them

Cons

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1.0
Mar 25, 2026
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Pros

Fully remote. People are pretty kind. Good hourly pay.

Cons

Micro1 feels like working for the SEO content mills of the 2010s. If you get hired onto a project, you crank out tedious task after tedious task. Your work is edited and sometimes graded, which is belittling. Some projects have so many people hired on and inconsistently available tasks that people constantly have to refresh for hours or days hoping for work. And then act grateful or excited on Slack, when they should be angry that this is how they're treated. An hourly rate that's incredible when there's a few hours a week available is a joke. You are also a contractor for each project, so once the project ends, you are done and have to scramble to interview and hopefully get hired on to another project. They clearly have no interest in the actual people working, they just need to meet their clients goals, and you will be a worker bee among thousands doing that for them. If you just want some extra cash, great. If you want dependable income, don't go looking at Micro1.

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