A Fool's Circus - Anonymous employee Innodata Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great for trauma bonding and gathering ideas for dystopian corpo-hell YA fiction.

Cons

You have seen all the reviews about the layoffs but the smooth part of your brain still thinks "But they make money, surely the business can't be that poorly-run?" And you're right, it's not poorly run, it's run exactly the way they want it to - cheap, fast, and piggish. This industry is a free-for-all and this tactless venture machine is profiting simply because everyone is terrified of dying unremarkably, so massive amounts of cash are being spent on building Babel all over again. Accountability falls exclusively on the lowest denominator here - annotators being hired at pithy wages face the roughest path forward because every moment is tracked but never formally appreciated. Upper management doesn't even have to answer emails on time, if at all. HR pretty much plugged their ears and yelled until you went away. But don't worry, the higher-ups will trash talk the laid-off individuals on LinkedIn for voicing their displeasure at how it was all handled, and then promptly like their own posts (no, really, the fart-sniffing is DEEP with these tech-dependent hustlebabies, they hide from real answers at work and share their bogus thought leadership boldly online where they can pretend they do anything besides eat whatever dirt the CEO asks them to). If you want to see what happens when you stare too long at your own bellybutton while dreaming about one day being Elon Musk or Batman, work here.

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Cons

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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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