Upwork reviews

3.8

59% would recommend to a friend

(633 total reviews)
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Hayden Brown

54% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Upwork has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 633 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Upwork 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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633 reviews
1.0
Jun 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people are really great.

Cons

Got hired late 2022 under the pretense that 80% of Enterprise AM's had hit quota in 2021 and 90% were on track to hit quota for 2022. Total BS. People were hitting their revenue targets because they lucked into how many accounts they got and the size of the accounts, and maybe 1-2 reps were hitting non-revenue goals a month. The product is not an enterprise product and customers did not view Upwork as an essential part of their hiring strategy, they viewed it as a nice to have when they need short-term work for a project. We touted to all our customers that Upwork is great so help prevent overhiring and layoffs, yet that's exactly what Upwork did, more than once. They were never able to give us full books which set us up for total failure. As some of us were finally starting to get new, promising accounts, we get a last minute meeting put on our calendars and we immediately knew what was about to go down. Pretty much every AM/AE that was hired since September got let go, along with many others who had been there for longer (some more than 3-4 years). Then there was all the drama with severance getting cut in half that is mentioned in a ton of other reviews. You would think with Upwork being a literal work marketplace, they would have a little more empathy in this scenario. So much for their mission statement.

2.0
Dec 20, 2022

Meh overall

Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, interesting challenges, important mission, stable product, easy to get away without doing much work, good analytics

Cons

Whimsical CEO who cries at company all hands, says there are no layoffs/strong business, then announces restructuring that pushes many people out of roles. Same CEO pushes on a strategy for 1.5 years that cannibalizes core business, doesn’t recognize it till much later, then pulls back strategy when damage is done. Stock prices plummeted, weak PM and engineering teams

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Upwork Response
3y
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. Please don't hesitate to reach out to HR if you'd like to provide any additional feedback! - Upwork HR
3.0
May 18, 2021

Lost Footing

Recommend
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Pros

I've learned a lot during my time here, the roles are highly structured and they do a great job building a true sales and account management foundation. My coworkers are all very bright, team players who support each other throughout the challenges and growing pains that occur.

Cons

They are still trying to figure out their place in the market which causes a lot of reorgs and shifts. Unfortunately, a large number of people were laid off at the end of 2020 and this really hurt morale, while I understood needing to shift the focus of the company to focus on the Enterprise business, to lay off 60 people in the middle of a global crisis felt a bit heartless especially given the financial performance the company had just obtained.

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Upwork Response
5y
We appreciate your feedback and candor about the difficult decisions we had to make as a company. Our people continue to be our primary focus and we will continue to learn and improve as a whole. - Katherine
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