An instant offer was sent to me for an Insurance expert! I am excited but also nervous. It says background pending and it takes up to 72 hours before it shows contract active. While I wait is there anything I should be doing or getting familiar with?
After reading other contractors’ experiences, I realized that short project cycles and sudden offboarding seem pretty common with this type of work. I wasn’t particularly surprised when mine ended this morning.
My biggest takeaway: treat this as a side gig, not a real job.
Task availability can be unpredictable, and projects can change or end quickly. When work was available, the pay was good and I learned something about how AI evaluation works. That’s valuable.
But I wouldn’t organize my career around waiting for the next batch of tasks.
Use these projects to earn some extra income, learn something new, and add relevant experience to your resume. At the same time, keep refreshing your resume, building your skills, networking, and looking for stronger long-term opportunities.
I also think expert work can become much more interesting than repeatedly judging outputs. I’d like to see more projects that actually use people’s domain expertise to design workflows and solve realistic problems.
Keep looking forward.
So I’ve gotten rejected for like every position I’ve applied to related to my background. So far 15 rejections, no offers, nothing. I’m starting to wonder if I need to change anything. I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job with my resume and I’ve completed assessmnts related to my field. Just wondering if anyone has experienced this? No offer but keeps getting rejected?
I’ve been on the platform since June
Contract paused today but it has been life-changing and not because of the money. I just see things differently.
I am curious if anyone knows uf we can post on our resume that we did eval work for large AI firm via Mercor?
Not putting names or project details. Just that we did this?
Been working as an engineering expert on a pay per task project and it seems impossible to actually get a task approved. In the month I've been on the project only 7 tasks have been approved for the team in total. Each week they change the project rules, add another quality check, a new field to fill out, or a new model version to run against so even if you make changes from your reviewer everything has to be run again against an ever-changing goalpost. The project is advertised as get paid this crazy rate every week, but if the task actually takes 1.5 months the payout is less than minimum wage in my state. I thought I could come here to see if anyone else was struggling with this but the page seems to be overrun with pro-Mercor bots bragging about how much money they're making. I've never been scammed like this it's so humiliating and degrading. This has to be intentional right?
Curious if anyone here has had a similar Mercor experience.
About a week ago I accepted a consulting contract with Mercor. That original contract is still active, although I’m still waiting on some provisioning/access.
Then Mercor added me to a second that I hadn’t specifically applied for.. but i figured - Ok cool, I should be able to swing both, as one was much higher hours than the other. Win/Win.....
(not, lol / Facepalm)
Last night I finally got access, and about an hour later received an email saying I had until 11:59 PM PST that night to complete several onboarding/practice/assessment tasks.
Very short notice, but I stayed up until around 4 AM and completed everything.
Today, roughly 12 hours later, I logged back in and saw that I had been offboarded from that second project.
No feedback, no explanation, and I can’t seem to find an actual human being to ask what happened.
I’m genuinely pretty shocked because I was interested in the work and think I would have been good at it. I’m not upset that they have standards or assessments — I just wasn’t expecting to go from “your access is ready” to being removed from the project within half a day.
So, for people who have worked with Mercor:
Not trying to trash Mercor. I’m genuinely trying to understand what happened and whether there’s any chance of getting back onto that project.
Would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has actually been through this.
Those in Europe specifically, how long did the first payment take to arrive in your bank account? Today it is expected that from Mercor my first payment will be transferred to stripe at 12 PM PST, but how long will it take to arrive in my bank account?
I have experience with AI Training work. I hold a PhD and worked as a Generalist, English Language Expert and Legal Expert for another company before. However, I have been applying for projects on Mercor for about 6 months now but never get accepted for anything at all. What could be the reason?
Just wanted to share my experience with Mercor today and see if anyone else has had something similar happen.
I signed my contract and was enrolled in the project this morning. I was ready to start the onboarding tasks, but immediately ran into access issues.
I could access one of the tasks through Mercor using my personal email account, but the attached materials/documents required to complete the task were not accessible.
I also have a separate expert account, so I tried logging into Mercor with that account instead. However, when I did that, I couldn’t access the task page at all.
So basically:
I created multiple threads/messages in the helpdesk channel explaining the issue and asking for help. I didn’t get any response from the project managers. The only replies I got were from other people who were apparently experiencing the same or similar access issues.
Then, around 2 hours later, I suddenly got removed from the project.
No one contacted me to help fix the access problem. No warning. No explanation of what I did wrong. I just received the notification that my involvement in the project had ended.
Like… WTF?
I understand that contractors can be removed from projects and project needs can change, but getting onboarded in the morning, being unable to complete onboarding because of what appears to be an account/access issue, asking for help and receiving no response, and then getting kicked out roughly two hours later is pretty frustrating.
Has anyone else had this happen with Mercor? Is this normal for their projects? And is there any point contacting Mercor support to ask them to review what happened?
I got a random instant offer out of the blue, couldn’t believe it. At first I thought it was a scam, but after some research and a leap of faith, I was onboarded and earning some good cash! Unfortunately my time came to an end 55 days in. I had been communicating with a reviewer on a task I needed to correct, I stepped away for a bit then all of a sudden I got dropped like a sack of potatoes, completely unexpected . Oh well, It was a good experience while it lasted, hope to have another opportunity pop up at some point in the future.
My profile is setup detailing my Software Engineering history. I got an instant offer and accepted it. Now that I am going through the onboarding docs I see that the tasks have nothing to do with my profession. They are of a different domain entirely. Is this a common occurrence?
Can someone give me some insight to the transition process of becoming a reviewer? It is a bit confusing for me. Certain things weren’t specified. Just seems a bit unofficial. Or is there someone that can message me?
I received an instant offer, which I have given all the relevant details demanded for the job, but i have been in review for quite a while now, and have sent maybe like 4 emails, none of them have been answered, is this normal?
I have sent an email once before and they answered directly
I'm on a project that requires more time than I can commit. If I request offboarding, am I less likely to be considered for future opps?
After 2 months of great work, great feedback’s, leadership recognition, I was off-boarded without a specific reason. Nothing works here, you can’t challenge and this isn’t a permanent job. So be ready for it any moment.
Anyone working as a Generalist for Mercor from the UK? I have a few questions.
