Toptal reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(758 total reviews)
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Taso DuVal

63% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Toptal has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 758 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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758 reviews
2.0
May 24, 2024

Don't work here

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people and teammates, ability to grow as a professional for some time

Cons

Working in fear, not knowing if you'll be laid off or not, creates a stressful and demotivating environment. Management continuously demands new initiatives from you, despite your salary being frozen for a year and a half. This makes it hard to find the motivation to work. Management seems intent on extracting every ounce of effort from you. At the same time, numerous all-hands meetings highlight the success stories of people like Taso and others from various islands. You find yourself thinking, "What the hell?" You're buried under a ton of work, missing initiatives, self-reviews, countless meetings, and a scope that constantly changes. Where is the happiness? There is no happiness at all at Toptal. It might be good for some, but I would never work there again.

2.0
Jan 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Amazing talent network and savvy engineering team - Compensation is good if you are living in a third-world country

Cons

- For specialized engineering positions, compensation feels very outdated - Poor C-Level decisions - The push to meet their "hidden" employer performance metrics, makes you run in circles trying to meet expectations while leaving the important job that should be targeted, unattended. - Layoffs are brutal, you don't even get a performance review or a call with HR. Your access is just cut off.

1.0
Feb 17, 2023

Avoid

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some good people trying to change the culture

Cons

Not safe to say here

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