What the work involves
This is application-grounded data work, not writing or chat review. You perform genuine PowerPoint tasks — the kind you'd do for a client deck, a board readout, or a sales pitch — while capturing your screen at each meaningful step. Typical assignments ask you to build or modify something (a slide master, a linked chart, a morph-transition sequence, a template rollout across a 40-slide deck), narrate the decisions you make, and record what the interface actually does, including where it misbehaves or where a menu path is non-obvious.
The value sits in the specifics: ribbon paths, dialog states, the difference between Slide Master and Layout edits, why a pasted Excel chart breaks on a different machine. Work is submitted as screenshots plus structured written steps, and reviewers check that the captures match the described actions and that the workflow is one a professional would actually use rather than the first path that happens to work.
What the platform screens for
- Real occupational use. Mercor's screen probes how PowerPoint fits into your actual job — consulting decks, marketing collateral, analyst reporting, sales enablement — and what you build that a casual user never touches.
- Depth under follow-up. Expect the interviewer to push past a first answer into masters vs. layouts, animation and trigger logic, embedded vs. linked objects, accessibility and export behaviour.
- Setup verification. Windows PC, PowerPoint openable today, and a display meeting the resolution table. This is checked, not assumed.
Logistics
Fully remote and asynchronous, paid hourly in an observed $60–70/hr band (rates are set per project and not guaranteed). Most contributors work in self-scheduled blocks, and volume fluctuates with project demand rather than arriving as a steady weekly quota. macOS-only PowerPoint users are not eligible for this particular queue — the tasks are Windows-specific, down to ribbon layout and keyboard behaviour.