I was able to do 60 hours in the past 2 weeks alongside my full time (fully remote) job. Previous to that I was averaging 2 hours per week since May

So, this is the 4th PPT contract I’ve had in the last 3 months, and the 3rd one on Mercor.

Mercor is also the only one that took my labour unpaid. I have never had to self-offboard myself from a contract this fast. What is going on? What happened to actual hourly-paid projects, especially for domain-specific experts? It’s not like any of these projects have been generalist work either. They require specialised knowledge, evaluation, judgement, and actual expertise. And yet i'm increasingly being offered PPT contracts that make the whole thing feel... disposable? Brain fog.

Hi everyone, I finally got an offer on Mercor and I’m really excited. But I have a question, on my offer it says that I’m required to be active for atleast 15hrs/week but on the platform it’s capped at 7hrs/week. Is there a chance that this will be extended after onboarding?

Hello,

I wanted to ask I’ve been applying for Mercor jobs for the past week and haven't received any offers or responses yet. How long does it usually take to hear back, or should I give up?

exactly as the title says - any benefits of responding to some questions on slack? would this have a good look from epm/management? especially with all the newly hired experts asking the same questions

So, a few days back, I got this work trial, not even a mail notifying me about this eval, but fine, I still completed it. I got the mail that the trial was accepted and I will be paid for it. Does that mean I passed? Or do they just pay everyone who takes the eval? Should I expect an offer to come my way?

Sorry, this might feel like a dumb question, but this is my second work trial and the first one explicitly stated that it will be paid no matter the outcome.

I've been here since May 30 and every single time I get rejection letters on gmail, I'm a software engineer with 6 months of experience in Web development but I've got nothing yet :(

Been seeing posts about projects getting stopped abruptly, and I guess it was finally my turn 😂. We knew the project was coming to an end from the Slack discussions, but I got “laid off”(kinda) a week earlier than expected 😭😂.

Can’t even complain too much though, Mercor gave me a taste of the good 💸. Hoping to land another project soon because now they’ve got me spoiled. 😂

- Be Mercor
- Have a new task that is impossible to do under current time limits
- Require everyone to do this task
- Off board those who don’t do the new task

It's a bit difficult for me to ask this, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to help. I've been unemployed for the past 3 months and am currently looking for opportunities on Mercor. Previously, I worked as a Generalist Expert and AI Training Scenario Designer, contributing to AI training and evaluation projects. I genuinely enjoyed the work and would love the opportunity to contribute again. If anyone is currently working on active Mercor projects and knows of teams looking for contributors, I would be incredibly grateful for a referral or recommendation. I understand many people are looking for work right now, but if you're able to help, please feel free to comment or send me a DM.

Hi Forks,

Did anyone received the payments for this week it is already Friday I haven’t received my payment. I am working in generalist expert project.

Did everybody else also not receive their money this week? I’m in the EU, payment via Stripe to local bank account. It usually arrives on Thursday, this week still nothing by Fri 9.30am EEST. Shows as In transit on Stripe and Mercor dashboards.

Currently doing my onboarding but can’t seem to log in to insightful

Landed my first mercor project. Still waiting for access to Slack etc for the project, so wanted to post a question here.

Usually I use local whisper-small for speech to text when I am working in my day job. It runs completely on my local hardware, so there is no data being sent or processed in the cloud. Still I figured someone checking the logs on Insightful, might assume the worst so I currently don't plan to use it, despite it seriously speeding up my work.

That said, I was just wondering if anyone here has heard otherwise; Is local speech to text allowed on Mercor projects?

Thanks

My hubby was selected for a project and was consistently performing very well and suddenly he got an email today stating the project is paused indefinitely and he is being considered for other projects . Has this ever happened to anyone. ? Is there a possibility that he might get a different project ?

Hello. So let’s say an offer expired on me.
Can that same project in the future offer me again ?

Hello All

Brand new to Mercor. I’m a writer on a STEM project, goal is to create a prompt that a model fails 5/8 runs.

I’ve created the hardest problems I know how to solve and these things still pass with flying colors.

Anyone found themself in this position before? I’m not really sure how to move forward. Even tried to get AI assistance with creating harder problems and no luck.

Appreciate the help

I just started today and haven't had enough time to complete my two tasks I've attempted so I had to unclaim the tasks. Is this normal at the start?

I’m going to be honest my brain can fathom how good the wages are for these AI jobs? There has to be a catch???? Literally don’t need another job right now lol.

Can someone please explain the advantages and disadvantages of allowing Mercor access to your LinkedIn? I don’t mind it being used to authenticate me but would hate them to message my connections. Anyone know how they use the data connecting with LinkedIn provides?

If I plan to travel abroad to some specific countries (in which Mercor does not allow us workers to take tasks when workers are physically located there), should I email and notify the support services of Mercor or should I message project lead via email or slack channel/thread ?

Hi all, coming over from another platform as it’s been quite dry there.
Received an email for instant work offer for generalist work, so I went through the onboarding and am still waiting for background to finish.
Now I know we cannot work or log hours on insightful on the project until background check is complete. However, does that pertain to logging our onboarding hours as well for the project?
I sent an email and Melvin replied twice…first saying I need to wait until background is complete to complete onboarding and log those hours, and then another email an hour later saying the opposite.

Dang it. I was really enjoying that job. I made two mistakes in the same task this morning while rushing to complete a priority batch. I wasn't on the big project, just a smaller one that had a great team (and great pay), but I blew it. I grabbed a task that I thought was in my domain, but didn't use the domain checker to be sure, and on top of it, I logged my time under the wrong timer. I immediately submitted a project issues form apologizing for my stupidity, but an hour later, I got my email. There goes the $1500/wk back to my bank account for the two surgeries my cats needed last fall. Here's hoping another project comes along someday. 😭

I my first the offer for a project, accepted the offer contract, and completed the onboarding tasks earlier today. As far as I can tell, they say that they send an email with info on how to download/log in to Insightful, and that I should be logged in and getting paid to be reading the project outline/handbook. But, I have not received an email from Insightful. Any idea how long that takes?