# Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon's Mechanical Turk **Category:** [On-Demand Staffing Services](https://www.g2.com/categories/on-demand-staffing-services) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 ## About Amazon Mechanical Turk Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) operates a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The MTurk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce ## Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews ### 1. Unlimited Earning Potential and Flexible Work on Amazon Mechanical Turk **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dynasty S. | Independent Contractor, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2025 **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I like the fact that I could get the HIT payment even if I don't get the bonus of completing the HIT. I like how I can submit as much work as I want and make as mush as I want. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** There is nothing I dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** You won't qualify for the high paying HITs at first but completing surveys would help you meet qualifications. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Honestly, it is solving financial problems. I am able to pay small bills with my earnings. ### 2. Amazon Crowd sourcing Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Actually its crowd sourcing online distance marketplace, helping people to get benefited the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. Employers are able to post jobs such as Label the Data for supervise machine learning or selecting best photo, filling product descriptions, selecting specific object in picture, Scoring tweet on some criteria, etc. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The services which can be done through Amazon Mechanical Turk are very cheap, task are done very fast, Resources are arranged easily, Transparency of work, and many more **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The appropriate resource matching should be focused more, there should be good algorithm for matching the task related appropriate resource search or match mechanism to facilitate. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Everyone must experience this, it will make your life easier **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Labeling the data unlabeled / unsupervised for machine learning or deep learning problems, which is the great benefit and become very simple and get possible which was not possible earlier. ### 3. Very easy for making extra income **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Feyisetan Precious G. **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The fact that I get to learn new things and very flexible timing. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Some of the researcher are dubious. They don't pay. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps solves surveys for institutions and companies and I get to learn new things every day. ### 4. Wouldn't even let me start **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bonnie J. | Brand Representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Well I liked the amount of work that they seemed to have and the range of tasks and pay rates and types of different categories of work and the whole layout of the sites. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Well for a start when I signed up I had to wait and wait for some process ans then it never got back to me and told me for months that I couldn't do the work cos they weren't accepting new workers or something weird. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Don't waste your time if your from Australia LOL **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was giving me work online, like freelancing work similar to appen and oneforma. It's like editing spam and getting rid of it off the internet and similar things ### 5. Really good side income **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** K.A K. | Senior Business Development Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Hit and research surveys also the payout **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Limited hits also they also approved a works from certain countries only **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well,it solving the labour forces and also it providing work to all who can able to access the laptops ### 6. Easy platform to submit surveys and allow others to complete them. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Mturk is a great survey platform that allows people to complete surveys that are posted onto their website. It is easy to gather research data through this way, and they often have lots of people submitting surveys for an incentive. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I found that it was very easy (with the help of my PI) to submit surveys onto their platform and also download available data that was submitted. It is much more professional than other survey platforms out there. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I do wish it was a bit easier to utilize the survey platform itself, such as when adding questions or other content onto the platform. I have found other survey platforms trickier, and less so than MTurk, but I wish they were a little more user-friendly. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** MTurk makes it easy to submit research studies and collect data. It is with peace of mind that there will be HITs that people will have and submit their answers to each survey they find. Not only that, but it is a popular survey platform, which really helps in data collection. ### 7. The easiest way to get a survey in front of many eyes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2021 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** There are many websites where users take surveys for money. Amazon pioneered the system, and Mechanical Turk has the largest, most active, and most experienced user base. I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to run surveys and collect results. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** You will get responses very quickly. You can set qualifications to reach a specific demographic or type of user. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The interface is hideous and not as quickly picked up as competitors' interfaces. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon Mechanical Turk has allowed me to conduct research quickly. It has allowed me to have a quantitative dataset to use in writing. ### 8. Cheap, Quick Method for Project Needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua K. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I was working on a project which involved the sharing of a referral code for website sign-ups. I needed ideally around 25 sign-ups; MTurk helped me achieve this. I paid each successful sign-up a sum of $0.18. The average time it took for a worker to complete the sign-up was only two minutes. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The most helpful thing about MTurk is that the platform allows you to screen workers before they're allowed to accept the task. For instance, any worker that wished to accept my task had to meet the following criteria: location in US, annual income less than $30,000, frugal, and at least a 95% acceptance rate from previous tasks. This allows the requester on MTurk to weed out low-quality and/or unqualified workers. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The only thing I disliked about MTurk was the large proportion of workers whose first language is not English. There is a strong presence of non-native English workers on the site. The quality of work for some of these workers is sub-par due to a poor understanding of English and the inability to accurately understand the task's instructions. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** If you are looking to get the most out of MTurk, you will want to request MWS Developer Keys. These will give you the ability to customize qualifiers, make your own templates, and try your tasks out before publishing them. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** MTurk has provided a way for us to get almost immediate turnaround for simple tasks. We set the amount we are willing to pay per task (called HITs) which is often extremely cheap compared to hiring an individual/group. With the customizable qualifiers, we can be sure that work performed will be relevant and high-quality. ### 9. Quick responses but sometimes low quality **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I am a social scientist that uses MTURK primarily for data collection. Great place to get quick data. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Quick and efficient, simple and userfriendly **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Sometimes the worker quality is low. Even with master qualification and limiting to those who had 99% previously approved hits, it does not usually help much in my opinion, In a study, my undergraduate students complete using 30 minutes and these Mturkers (master + highly experienced) only used 10mins+ , providing significantly shorter responses! **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps with data collection process, though ### 10. Experimentation made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** We use Mturk to run experiments and they are a great way to get a general idea of how people respind to certain situations. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Easy implementation and great access to people who would otherwise not be included in studies. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** A very specific crowd are on Mturk and sometimes it might mean the responses are not generalizeable. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Make sure your study designs are well thought through **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** In comparison with just running the study in university labs we get answers from people in different stages of their life. ### 11. Great program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Amazon Mechanical Turk has helped me make so much money. As a student, I don't have much time to work and earn money, but through mTurk, I have made over $600 in a year. My university is also able to send out surveys and get a better response that can be more generalized of the population, which is helpful as we are a top notch research university. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I don't need to necessarily have any academic qualifications to make money. It's always accessible no matter the time. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** No one knows how to get "masters" so it's harder to get higher paying tasks. You can end up wasting lots of time for low paying tasks. Many of the tasks fill up very fast. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Make sure you offer more money to people taking your surveys because this will make people more likely to take them. Also, don't require the "masters" qualification as that limits the group of people who can take your survey. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy to make money at a time that works with your own schedule. I don't mind taking surveys so it works well for me. ### 12. Not the Best Way to Make Money **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** There are different surveys to take on there and the pay ranges from 10 cents up to a dollar. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I like how some of these surveys are so easy and can take like 5 minutes and you earn 50 cents so if you really work hard you can make decent money on the side. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I don’t like how sometimes the HIIT will expire after you took a survey for something higher paying (like $2) and then when they ask you to go back to the page and put in the code it’s gone so you can’t get paid. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes if you don’t get paid you are given an email to contact the person responsible for the survey and you just tell them you participated but weren’t compensated. So that is helpful because they can make you a private HIIT so you can get paid. ### 13. Time requiring jobs at low prices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** To mark elements on thousands of pictures **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The price per picture was very low and the results were great **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Having to use all the infraestructura me of Amazon instead of they providing as a part of the service **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Instructions are really important and dividing the tasks in smaller simple ones can make people responde faster **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows the workers to get jobs that are not monotone and left those to people that can do them easily ### 14. Great tool for collecting data very quickly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikki S. | Graduate student teaching assistant and researcher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I am part of a research team at a large university that is constantly collecting data for research projects on employed adults. We run into the issue of not being able to use available participants in our location (such as students or the community) for our research, as they are not our target population; however, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk has allowed us to quickly gather data on the populations we study. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The best feature has been the ability to set specific criteria for who can participate in the listing (such as having to have complete at least 100 prior HITS, having a 95% approval rating, geographic location, age, work status, etc etc.). You have to pay extra for these screenings (per participant) which can really add up but it is necessary in order to get usable data. Data is also gathered EXTREMELY quickly on MTurk, especially if you pay participants a reasonable amount. We have collected quality information on 500 people over night. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** It is extremely inconvenient to contact MTurk workers who have completed your HIT to participate in a followup, as you have to do so one at a time, which is not realistic if you are trying to reach 500+ people. We have found a way to do so though a statistical software however this process requires code, is a bit complicated, and is error prone. It would be extremely beneficial if there was a way to contract groups of workers directly on the website. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Make sure you have the appropriate funds before initiating a project, as many of the useful features on MTurk require additional fees per participant. Also make sure everything you set up is running properly as soon as it goes live, as it is huge waste of time and resources to post a HIT that has a glitch and still have to pay everyone who participated. ### 15. Has room for growth **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk is a website where you do simple little tasks and you can earn money by doing so. You then can cash out by either setting up your bank card with amazon pay OR you can simply cash out with amazon giftcard. They usually take around 24 hours for the transfer. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Honest the best thing that i like unlike some other websites you can earn cash with it is super easy to get the money on my amazon account. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The rejections. Sometimes you get rejection happy requester and they can reject your hit and then when that happens you did the work and your not paid. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just earning cash its great for my pocket ### 16. Amazon Mechanical Turk Review By Luzmary **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luzmary C. | Executive Assistant To Chief Executive Officer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has helped applicants solve many data processing, analysis and content moderation challenges. This is possible thanks to the contributions of Workers from all over the world who have been driving the MTurk market. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I can Work as much or as little as I want. Amazon Mechanical Turk has a variety of tasks, and good third-party support forums **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I see that there are many predatory and low-income applicants, in slow times of the year, and Amazon provides virtually no support, no benefits I think that Mechanical Turk offers to work at your own convenience, but also at your own risk. The payment offered for the time invested is not enough, but if you have nothing else to do with that time, you may receive a payment for it. The possibility of having your funds deposited into your bank account or as a credit on Amazon is a nice advantage, but perhaps the only one. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I can recommend that you try it for yourself, since it has work for everyone. ### 17. My Experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jackelyn p. | Assistant Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Mechanical Turk can bemused to gather data, information, make surveys etc. I love this because I can conduct a research without having to go out. this system gives you the ability to purchase hits so that the workers can get paid. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I love the ease and the fact that I can multitask in my business while getting all the important tasks done in the business. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** it can sometimes take a few to get response, but other than that it is absolutely great. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I recommend this software because it will put you at ease knowing that you will get honest feedback because the workers are being compensated. it is so easy to build and you can work with whatever amount you can to conduct the research. ### 18. Hard work for low payout **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I took on several mechanical turk projects (selected from a list) that were related to transcription, surveys, and data entry. The reward for the completed project was usually cents on the dollar and ultimately I didn't find it a worthwhile platform. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** It is easy to navigate the queue and you have complete choice over what to select from the list. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The rewards are way too low. Requesters on the platform are looking for projects to be completed for literal change. Also, the requester can reject your work and ultimately not pay you. I worked for weeks and only made 9.00 dollars. **What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was attempting to provide a service to requesters via Amazon Mechanical Turk but ultimately the time investment was not worth it. ### 19. The overall experience using Amazon Mechanical Turk has been good. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to get people to fill a survey about my research. For this task, I needed people from the elderly community (Preferably older than 60 years) to fill out a survey. Using this website allowed me to just send out the survey, without worrying about selecting the people or talking to people on the street, saving me a lot of time. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The best thing about Amazon Mechanical Turk is that you can actually filter based on the users age and gender, which allows for targeting certain population for your surveys. This great feature allowed me to send the survey only to the elderly community, which is the population of interest in my research. In addition, you can select the amount of money that you want to pay to the people that actually fill the surveys, which is really good since you are not force into paying any set amount. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The only thing that I dislike is that there are not many people using the service. However, I understand that since this service is still in beta, the number of users should only be expected to increase in the foreseeable future. I thing that if there is something that can be improved, is to send notification to the people that have not filled the survey, so they get a second chance of doing it, and the response rate increases. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I fully recommend it. ### 20. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Amazon Mechanical Turk is very easy to use and doesn't take long to learn to use. You can also reach tons of people if you need some data quick and if you are a worker, you can find tons of microjobs to earn a few extra bucks. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I think I like the ease of use and the layout of Amazon Mechanical Turk. I also like that there are so many users and you can get results pretty quick. It is very user friendly for both the workers and the requestors. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The only thing I can say that I dislike is the quality may not always be up to par. Some workers do not actually participate in some of the activities and will just rush through and not answer thoughtfully. From a worker's view, you may not get compensated fairly for the time you spend on certain hits. ### 21. Cloud-based labor anytime **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I had a project where I was to review a SAT test and take the test itself and give feedback on what needs to be improved. The test took over a hour and was like the real SAT I taken when i was in high school. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** What I like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk is the ability to have the freedom to choose what I want to do and for however long I want to do it for. There are a large variety of work that surveys ask from other people. This is great for people who wants to make a side income or use their spare time. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** A lot of the work is long and low paying. Some work can be rejected for almost no reason and there is occasionally no work from high paying surveys **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I definitely recommend anyone to use Amazon Mechanical Turk. It is a great source for side income and there is something for everybody. ### 22. It's great to make enough money in order to make purchases **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I work for them every day on small tasks. Since I am bilingual, I have access to more tasks, but some clients in my language will not grant me access unless I live in the country of the language. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Some short tasks are easy and quick to work on. I also like the fact that there are payment options, either in Amazon gift cards or directly to the bank account. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** No access to their masters tasks while I have been working for them for four years. And some clients have tasks that are not described well. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** The more you work for them, the more money you make. There is work all year long, every day. ### 23. Adequate form of answering surveys and making money **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I mainly used Mechanical Turk while I was attending college. I majored in marketing so a big part of specific courses was getting people to fill out surveys and Mechanical Turk was always a good option. It's pretty astonishing how far a small incentive will get you. And if you're in the line of trying to make a few extra bucks, doing the surveys yourself isn't a bad option either. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** It's a simple tool to set up. No robust mechanisms that make setting up survey's difficult and it's easy to pay individuals their incentives who participate in your survey. If you are the one who takes surveys the money is deposited directly into your account which is nice. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The qualifications for taking specific surveys are sometimes beyond achievable for people who don't do this for a full-time job, which is understandable but can be annoying if trying to make money and the only good Turks are gated beyond your achievements. Other than that I don't really have a problem with the service. ### 24. When i learned of Amazon Mechanical Turk, then signed up, I Fell in Love. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Correena B. | Volunteer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I am a multitask-er so i find myself doing and trying out new projects every week. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I love completing Surveys for research projects. How i can cash out to my bank account within 2 days. Also how they have other software to keep tabs on assignments based off my profile. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** i can truly say there is nothing i really dislike about this company. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I recommend you try it out for yourself, it has work for everyone. ### 25. Lots of opportunities, but low-paying **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I had people complete a survey on emotions and relationships **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The surveys are easy to administer and I can collect data pretty quickly. I can also get relatively diverse samples in terms of race, income, age, and gender; this is different from work I might typically do with college students. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** People always complain about not being paid enough, even though they're the ones volunteering to participate **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** Offer a higher price to MTurk workers for ethical reasons and to make people more motivated to do a good job on the task ### 26. MTurk - The part- time that helped me **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** So, I usually pick up HITs that are surveys or tasks that pay instant. Some of the surveys I have completed are regarding a food delivery app, daily sleep patterns and such. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The money, thats what got me turking. I make up time everyday to turk and try to meetup my quota. The money I earn from these tasks help with my monthly expenses. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The pay rate can be increased. Also, I have had instances where I have been duped after putting my time into it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:** I highly recommend this product. ### 27. psychology research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I was doing a research project and collecting data on employee selection practices. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** The variety of response options was nice. And I liked how easy it was to view results. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Creating a very large survey was sometimes difficult and time consuming. ### 28. Very easy and intuitive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Train machine learning model for applying labels to clothing entries. These clothing entries are items scraped from online retailers websites. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I love how easy it is to integrate mechanical turk into a backend and programmatically generate entries. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I don't remember having any issue with using mechanical turk. ### 29. Good for large projects **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** Research project with large sample size required. **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Inexpensive and easy enough to navigate. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** Not enough consistency with users completing survey. ### 30. Great for surveying! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:** I sourced a survey to acquire participants and the tech worked great. I had 300 completed within a day! **What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** It was easy to create the survey and fast to find the participants. **What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?** I didn't know how much to pay each person so I guessed. 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