Helm.ai Reviews

- At times it may be a lot of work. However, for a team of this size, and for the technology being developed, it is understandably necessary in order to stay at the forefront of AV. Personally, I enjoyed the amount of work and was able to learn and grow a lot.

Like one of the other reviews said, everyone seems unhappy and high-paid engineers are performing huge numbers of man-hours of repetitive data annotation work. Regarding the first point: One thing I noticed is people's unwillingness to discuss or share their work. There was a feeling of being siloed off and that everyone was secretly competing with one another. This is the opposite of what you want at a small startup. If I wanted to be a cog, I'd join a larger, better-paying company. I understand culture is hard to fix, but with an organization of this size, it should definitely be possible. The fact that the work is remote is not an excuse: I have experience at several other remote-first companies (larger ones, in fact) where everyone got along just fine. Regarding the data annotation: This is just dumb. Not only is it mind-numbing (I think there's great benefit in doing it a bit, but there are limits), it's an astonishing waste of resources and truly doesn't inspire confidence in the company's long-term success. This one's easy to fix: Outsource this problem to a firm that does annotation. Not only would this improve morale, but you'd probably save money this way as well.