Toptal reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(756 total reviews)
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Taso DuVal

61% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Toptal has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 756 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Toptal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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756 reviews
1.0
Feb 5, 2021
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Pros

Absolutely nothing, it is a great idea with a horrible implementation.

Cons

The company has a horrible attitude since the recruitment process, where the tone of the conversation is like they are making you a favour to let you work for them, it sounds like an old fashion cult in which you have to make crazy things to prove you are good enough and join them. The recruitment process is full of warnings that if you are not compliant to whichever rule, your application will be stopped or suspended. The tests they use are absolutely academical and unrealistic and also having more than 20 years of experience will not help because they are totally abstract and designed to make you fail rather than prove your skills, treating people like junior students rather than experienced professionals. The recruiters will just squeeze anything they need out of you and showing arrogance during the whole process. The same attitude is then detectable while working with them, where the toxicity comes out in any element of the job at any time, bringing the stress level to the stars and making you hate every single moment you spend with them. It is a great idea completely gone bad in a terrible way.

1.0
Jul 8, 2019

No one cares about talent

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Pros

Remote work is the only benefit I can come up with at this point

Cons

Lack of transparency Poor management Lack of systematic and meaningful decision making Nobody cares about people that work there or talent The culture is not really implemented as it is propagated (they say one thing, do another in practice)

5.0
Sep 18, 2019

Cool Company

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Pros

One of the best points of Toptal is the work culture: flexible hours, good practices, always learning and so on. In addition, you can be in your comfort zone in your team or you can change team for learning more cool things if you want, I love that idea to keep improving yourself as engineer.

Cons

One of the downsides of working on Toptal is that the beginning is a little bit hard if you aren't used to a big remote company because you have to learn how everything works, it means that you can feel lost but only in the beginning.

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