Innodata reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(875 total reviews)
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Jack S. Abuhoff

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Innodata has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 875 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Innodata employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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875 reviews
1.0
Mar 12, 2026

no love lost

Recommend
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Pros

job was a good way to dip a toe in the AI chatbot training water and improve the end-user experience

Cons

There was either no work in the queue for days/weeks OR I was drowning in work - feast or famine because I was only working for one client as a contractor which made my employment tenuous. Onboarded with 200 other people on the same day - not a smart way to orient new employees! A person above me in the chain of command told me that Innodata terminated her earlier in 2026 along with over 100 other US-based employees. Canadians have received emails more or less warning them that if they were on the projects that ended, they might be also let go. She said the company is not in a good spot with that client. They were always a confidential client that we weren't supposed to speak about, so that might be why I don't see their logo on Innodata's website any longer. It was their workflows that were closed abruptly, after months of other projects also going underwater rapidly. My former co-worker does not see them continuing operations with Innodata for much longer. Innodata is making most positions contracted instead of salary, no benefits or laptops, and those contractors are reporting all over the place that Innodata has not been paying them for months at a time - some have not received a check since November 2025. HR is hanging up on employees who call to ask questions about the recent layoffs of over 100 people, They recently shut down 600 new contracts with overseas contractors who didn't even make it through training. They clearly are struggling to compensate everyone,

1.0
Mar 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive and reliable compensation package - Comprehensive benefits offerings - Professional, knowledgeable training team that invested in employee development - Exposure to high-profile enterprise clients (Tier-1 companies) and meaningful RLHF/multilingual annotation work

Cons

While the foundational work experience was valuable, the company's management approach revealed serious structural issues. Most critically, the organization conducted mass layoffs affecting over 100 employees with no advance notice and I was part of that, demonstrating a fundamental lack of respect for workforce dignity and stability. This event was emblematic of broader dysfunction: management operated with inconsistent decision-making and opaque communication, creating an environment where we, employees never felt secure in our roles. The treatment of staff particularly during reductions was handled with minimal professionalism, raising questions about company values despite the polished client facing presentation. The disconnect between how the company presents itself externally and how it treats employees internally is stark and concerning. I remeber having my laptop remotely being shut down in the middle of the layoff reunion which speaks volume on this company.

1.0
Mar 5, 2026

A Fool's Circus

Anonymous employee
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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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