I recently completed a two-month engagement with Mercor, an AI-focused trading job platform.
The work itself was engaging, the team was talented, and I appreciated the opportunity to contribute.
However, I want to be transparent about an unresolved issue: I was not compensated for the final week of my work.
I’ve made multiple attempts to follow up through the appropriate channels, but unfortunately, I haven’t received a response or resolution.
As professionals, we all understand the importance of honoring commitments—especially when it comes to compensation for completed work.
This experience has been disappointing, not just financially, but in terms of trust.
I’m sharing this publicly not out of frustration, but in the hope that it prompts a resolution—and perhaps serves as a reminder to other early-stage companies:
Your reputation is built not just on your product, but on how you treat the people who help build it.
To those considering opportunities with Mercor, I encourage you to do your due diligence.
And to the team at Mercor: I’m still open to resolving this amicably.
We all want to see innovation thrive—but fairness and accountability should scale with it.
Top comments (3)
I'm yet another developer who completed my engagement with Mercor, delivered everything as agreed, and was never paid for the final week. No explanation. No resolution. Just silence.
This isn't a one-off oversight-it's a pattern. And when multiple contributors report the same issue, it stops being a mistake and starts looking like a business model.
Mercor positions itself as a platform for the future of work. But if this is how it treats the people doing that work-ghosting them after extracting value-then it's not building the future. It's exploiting it.
To the team at Mercor: pay what you owe. To everyone else: proceed with caution.
A company that ignores it obligations doesn't deserve your talent.
Mercor's silence isn't just negligent-it's cowardly.
If Mercor can't afford to pay its contributors, it shouldn't be hiring. If it won't pay them, it shouldn't exist
I completed my assigned work for Mercor and followed all required processes, but my payment was ultimately withheld. After finishing the project, I reached out to their support team for clarification, yet the only response I received was a generic message stating that a "policy violation" occurred, without any specific explanation or evidence.
There was no opportunity to appeal, no details about what rule was supposedly broken, and no clear communication about why the payment for my completed work would not be released. As a contractor, this creates a sense of insecurity, because the time and effort invested may not be compensated.
My experience showed a lack of transparency, unclear internal processes, and very limited support communication. For a platform that relies on freelance talent, clearer policies, proper explanations, and fair review procedures are essential. I hope Mercor improves how it handles payment-related issues and communicates with the contractors who depend on timely and reliable compensation.
I am in the same situation - completed my engagement with Mercor, delivered everything as agreed, and was never paid for the final week.
Despite multiple follow-ups, I've received nothing but silence.
It's unacceptable for a company that claims to champion innovation to exploit the very people building that future. If Mercor wants to be taken seriously in this space, it needs to start by honoring basic obligations - like paying its contributors.
And to Mercor - this isn't just a missed payment, it's a breach of trust.