Toptal reviews

Simply a horrible company. About half the people I started with were gone less than a year after joining. Many of my former co-workers don't even bother listing Toptal on their resume. For those considering Toptal as way to get into tech, don't do it! This is NOT a tech company. Most of your work will be boring repetitive tasks that do not build any useful skills. Toptal likes to fire people with no warning. It's an unprofessional way to do business and has left my team scrambling to figure out how to continue projects with no heads up. There's been a lot of complaints about the CEO. However, a lot of the exec team either condone his behavior or are too weak to stand up to him. The HR team is particularly slimy. They basically hit every negative HR stereotype you can think of.

Everyone keeps a good face about the company until you start working here and seeing what’s going on and talking to people. There’s a fear across the company of layoffs or being ridiculed by the CEO. We post articles on LinkedIn about companies who do layoffs making an example of them and how they haven’t grown the right way then turn around a week later and do layoffs across the company. The Unlimited PTO policy is BS for the most part - holidays aren’t included in the PTO and you can’t go over 35 they say - so really not including holidays you get 20 days or so. Sales practices are very questionable and the whole model has flaws that I won’t go into. There’s some really good leaders - but also many bad ones. Pay is also very very low - no company bonuses - no equity because it’s a private company