Pros
They pay well, the work is interesting, even if you don't typically get enough of it and they change you from project to project pretty frequently. Liked the ability to log in anytime, log out anytime. Works around your schedule. Values intelligence even if they get it wrong sometimes.
Cons
At remotasks/outlier/scale-AI (same company) they don't so much value their employees as they do value the fact that they're expendable. I never got the feeling once in my interactions with staff or team leaders that I was anything other than another cog in the (highly defective) works. When improvements were suggested, or bugs reported, these were generally ignored, or if you persisted you got labelled as negative and kicked off projects. It was not a hospitable workplace. From what I saw, team leaders were also expendable and came and went fairly quickly. In a good company there is a way for those at the bottom of the chain to suggest and/or make improvements, and those at the top listen, although don't always agree. The setup with remotasks is "shut up and do the work"- even if it's stupid, even if things don't make sense. And they frequently don't make sense. For the coding projects, you get "challenge" tasks occasionally - that is, non-work tasks that are put in there to check on your abilities. These are checked by AI, not humans. But the AI isn't good enough yet to make those kinds of assessments (that's why we're training it). It sometimes marks down correct tasks which are worded slightly differently to what it expects, and unfortunately gives the tasker no clue as to what they did wrong, if anything. So learning from mistakes is non-existent. Likewise the task linters themselves are AI-based, and suck. Hard. They don't work 90% of the time, but despite frequent calls from many taskers to team leaders to make them bypassable, they typically weren't, and they blocked 90% of all good work. When someone else reviews your task, and finds fault with it, there is no method by which you can correct them if they're wrong in their thinking. You just get marked down. In short, nothing in this setup resembles anything like an IT company - it's more like a sweatshop. And that's how it makes you feel. If you are intelligent, this is not the company for you. Find somewhere that you can have your skills and thoughts treated with basic humanity and respect. If you're desperate for money, go ahead and do it. I guess I wasn't that desperate and had too much self-respect.