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Why don't you say what you're thinking instead of disguising your opinions as questions?

by lambic 5y ago

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
Let me try: This looks way too cheap to be able to afford good enough reviewers to be worth using; if someone is good enough to be able to pick up a new codebase and usefully review changes that quickly, they'd get a better paying job.
- breakfastduck 5y ago
  If you read the rest of this thread you'll see numerous reviewers from the site giving their 2 cents. Much preferable to just making assumptions. It's pretty clear that the people offering the service are doing it as a way of gaining extra income on the side rather than a main employment.
  - joshgrib 5y ago
    I've read a bunch of the reviews and they seem kinda sketchy - no one will say how much they actually make in an hour and it's a lot of general "no trust us it's good". I can't find anyone saying "I'm making X per hour reviewing Y", if they pay over $30/hr I'm interested but really for less. The pricing on the site is also super confusing - it's $200 for one hour of reviewing, but $700 for a month? In a typical month at my job I'm doing way more than 3.5 hours of review and also doing a bunch of other stuff on the side. Then if the $700 rate is supposed to be ~120 hours then that's only $5.83/hr which isn't even minimum wage where I am. It is however on par with a lot of gig-work jobs, which makes this even more concerning. If anyone can say what they made I think that would do a lot to quell all the people that don't trust this. I'm also sure some people must have had a bad experience on the site and I haven't seen that yet which is suspicious. If anyone from the site happens to see this then I think you should add a breakdown of the percentage of pay going to the reviewers, or just some examples like "For C++ you can expect $40-30/hr, JS is $35-25/hr, etc"
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    He's got a point. $50-3000 / week tells you nothing. They should tell you the avg $ per hour.
    - joshgrib 5y ago
      This is always the stat I want from gig-work jobs and never the one they want to show. For example Uber will often tout paying upwards of $25-30/hr, but the actual average is closer to $11/hr, which is below minimum wage in many places, doesn't include any benefits/sick days/etc, and also doesn't include expenses from car insurance/gas/maintenance. I'd really appreciate if all companies were required to report some basics stats on pay - total employees, min/max, average, and mean would be great

Why don't you say what you're thinking instead of disguising your opinions as questions?

by lambic 5y ago

Why don't you say what you're thinking instead of disguising your opinions as questions?

Let me try: This looks way too cheap to be able to afford good enough reviewers to be worth using; if someone is good enough to be able to pick up a new codebase and usefully review changes that quickly, they'd get a better paying job.

breakfastduck 5y ago
If you read the rest of this thread you'll see numerous reviewers from the site giving their 2 cents. Much preferable to just making assumptions. It's pretty clear that the people offering the service are doing it as a way of gaining extra income on the side rather than a main employment.
- joshgrib 5y ago
  I've read a bunch of the reviews and they seem kinda sketchy - no one will say how much they actually make in an hour and it's a lot of general "no trust us it's good". I can't find anyone saying "I'm making X per hour reviewing Y", if they pay over $30/hr I'm interested but really for less. The pricing on the site is also super confusing - it's $200 for one hour of reviewing, but $700 for a month? In a typical month at my job I'm doing way more than 3.5 hours of review and also doing a bunch of other stuff on the side. Then if the $700 rate is supposed to be ~120 hours then that's only $5.83/hr which isn't even minimum wage where I am. It is however on par with a lot of gig-work jobs, which makes this even more concerning. If anyone can say what they made I think that would do a lot to quell all the people that don't trust this. I'm also sure some people must have had a bad experience on the site and I haven't seen that yet which is suspicious. If anyone from the site happens to see this then I think you should add a breakdown of the percentage of pay going to the reviewers, or just some examples like "For C++ you can expect $40-30/hr, JS is $35-25/hr, etc"
- hunterb123 5y ago
  He's got a point. $50-3000 / week tells you nothing. They should tell you the avg $ per hour.
  - joshgrib 5y ago
    This is always the stat I want from gig-work jobs and never the one they want to show. For example Uber will often tout paying upwards of $25-30/hr, but the actual average is closer to $11/hr, which is below minimum wage in many places, doesn't include any benefits/sick days/etc, and also doesn't include expenses from car insurance/gas/maintenance. I'd really appreciate if all companies were required to report some basics stats on pay - total employees, min/max, average, and mean would be great