The interview involved 5 writing assignments, and 3 quizzes that took about 18 hours of work to complete. Emails prompting you to move from one assignment to the next came with promises of payments that never materialized. After finishing the 5 assignments, the recruiter went into radio silence and did not answer any of the 4 emails I sent them asking about the status of my application.
After 4 weeks of radio silence, I lodged a complaint with NY state government for deceptive / misleading hiring practices, and sent Wonder a final email informing them of the complaint. The recruiter finally responded to this email informing me that while I had been approved to work on their platform, they didn't have enough work for me to be actually given any paid assignments. They could have avoided a formal complaint had they responded to my emails, and not "ghosted" on me.
I wouldn't quite call this a scam, but it is definitely scam-adjacent. It strains credulity that they have clients such as Deloitte and PWC. I also suspect that their emails claiming that the work I was doing during the skills testing was not client-related were disingenuous.
I suppose this is par for the course in the gig economy, but Wonder has taken the scam-adjacent nature of gig economy work to a whole new level of slickness.