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

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
2.0
Aug 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work, flexible, decent pay

Cons

When you first start in a role you only see the positive in a company and focus on the good, that doesn't last long here. I've never seen a company who treats their employees so poorly before. They have been letting people go for almost 2 years now, usually not announced, cut benefits, frozen salary increases, even when being promoted, and micro-mange everything you do. The people that are let go has nothing to do with performance but purely cutting costs. Imagine being a consistent top performing team player then one day you've been "re-structured" out of the organization. The management, especially Director level and above, are a bunch of "yes men" to a delusional CEO who thinks his staffing company is a multi-billion dollar consulting company. They only look out for themselves and "do what they're told" by the CEO. Not sure who's writing these positive reviews but I would only take a role here out of desperation and my advice would be to keep looking. They won't care about you so you shouldn't care about them

4.0
Aug 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're a working parent, the part time options are very helpful.

Cons

Rates are on a downward spiral as the platform gets more crowded with remote workers

1.0
Aug 27, 2024

Echoing What Others Have Written

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some amazing people who could be delivering amazing work if they weren't being micromanaged constantly. Decent pay but not decent enough to compensate for the ridiculousness from the top.

Cons

Priorities shifted constantly, often focusing on minutiae that made no meaningful difference in any outcome. The churn was unlike any I've ever seen at any organization, even before the rounds of layoffs. Salaries were frozen. The 401k match was eliminated. We were told that we'd have to start paying for half of our health insurance, never mind that that was not what we agreed to when we signed our employment letters, so on top of frozen salaries, we took literal pay cuts. And yet, I've seen on LinkedIn that the company had a presence in Davos and hosted a happy hour in Cannes? There's money to fly senior leadership to Davos and to Cannes – to host a cocktail party – but there's not money to give people salary adjustments? The CEO, in my opinion, is shockingly devoid of emotional maturity. I have worked for some truly exceptional leaders, so I know what bad "leadership" looks like. He is the poster child. But, as others have written, there is no board. There is no one to constrain him. And so the churn, I'm sure, will continue.

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