Wonder Research Reviews

It is very hard to be successful at this job. When I applied, I understood that I'd be writing research reports with a timed deadline that you could extend by 30 increments minutes if needed. However, they must have just revamped their system, because no such extension exists. You have four hours to complete an assignment and whatever is completed within that time is automatically submitted for review. Four hours seems like a lot of time, but it is difficult to read and synthesize long and detailed notes and sources, create and outline and write high-quality error-free pieces. Those who are successful at this must be machines! -If you submit work that does not pass 4.5 in quality, they send it back to you for revisions, however, you must still be online and available. If you worked on a project at night and slept afterward, you'll wake up to emails requesting further edits, but your opportunity window will have expired and all of your work is discarded and the research request is sent back to the general pool. Truly a waste of valuable time.

The income you actually make versus how much time and energy you put into it is terrible. As an entry level sourcer you get $10 per job completed, but that's only if your work gets 'approved'. If it doesn't, you get absolutely nothing for your effort. There's something really wrong with not getting paid for work done, rejected or not. The approval of work is highly subjective and inconsistent since different reviewers may have different opinions on the sourcing done. I've had sourcing work get rejected only to see the same sources on the final write-up. It's ridiculous. They say it takes between 45 and 90 minutes to complete a sourcing job, but a lot of times it takes much longer than that. So not only do you not get paid if your work is rejected, you don't get adequate pay if your work is accepted. My last job took 2 1/2 hours and I earned $10. That's the equivalent of $4 an hour - way under minimum wage. I haven't worked for them long, but I have already soured on them. It feels too much like worker exploitation to me.