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      Toptal

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      Toptal reviews

      3.8

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (757 total reviews)
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      Taso DuVal

      61% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Senior management

      Toptal has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 757 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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      757 reviews
      5.0
      Jul 5, 2019

      Rewarding and challenging workplace

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Toptal is a place for you, if: - You wanna be at the frontlines of a hypergrowth company that is accelerating its pace of growth and you wanna drive this growth forward - You wanna work in an environment where merit is the most important thing for your career growth - You enjoy being surrounded by smart individuals who think outside the box and are ready to share and challenge ideas - You are self-disciplined and can thrive in a remote setting. There will be no one looking over your shoulder and you will enjoy the flexibility and freedom of the location. - You care about social impact. Toptal is bridging the gap of talent shortage in world-class organizations and top talent across the globe. People based on merit can now join world class organizations wherever they are in the world which they wouldn’t be able to do so without Toptal.

      Cons

      Toptal is not a place for you if you are looking for a calm, cosy place to work without expecting to be challenged. You have to be ready to thrive in the merit-based culture.

      4.0
      Jul 3, 2019

      The good and the challenging

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Toptal is a hyper-growth company, so there is plenty of opportunities for learning, promotions, and cross-team projects that have massive business impact - Compensation is highly competitive, specially for those who live outside of the SF or NYC bubbles - Toptalers are great. You work with people from all over the world, and they are really smart - Working remote is life changing in a positive way, yet not for everyone. You need self-discipline and the ability to communicate without burning yourself out (some people get messaging anxiety) If you have that, you will never go back to an office job - Toptal is doing a massive transformation and its culture so much better. 1.5 years ago I joined a different company. Full of dirty politics. However, some bad execs and their followers left and things are much better now. Moreover, I am happy that we got rid of that sense of entitlement from some young and unexperienced employees who were "friends" with some execs. They used to get away with anything without consequences

      Cons

      - Ambitious growth comes with hard and smart work. If you like your cozy 9-4 job with nap pods, probably not the place for you. I have seen a few people fail dramatically because they expected to join Toptal and get "trained" for 6-12 months before driving any impact - Toptal's CEO is a super intense guy. I would argue that is the classic hyper-growth CEO, but I have seen plenty of employee coming in wanting a charismatic corporate CEO who just makes sure things continue the same. Not the case here - Benefits are limited. However, for those terminated employees who write some dramatic statements about it, we actually get a high base salary to make sure we do have money for our equipment and a home office. Nevertheless, I hope the company soon restructures its equity and/or profit sharing plans - Building culture and strong teams is hard if you work remotely. You will need some emotional strength to overcome the lack of meaningful human interaction in the day to day - We have an unlimited PTO policy that was abused in the past. Thus, we had two buckets of people, some people were taking up to 50 days off/year, and some barely took only a week/year. Luckily, the execs who were pro "never take time off" are gone

      1.0
      Jun 10, 2019

      Very disapointed

      Senior net developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Remote job, You can work anywhere

      Cons

      sporadic projects so it's bad idea as single job. the recruiters do not know what they do, they contact you for other profiles different from yours. After several years they dismissed me arguing that due to communication problems. seriously?

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