Upwork reviews

Doesn't look like anything has changed according to recent reviews. I wouldn't even be taking the time to submit a review all this time later if this place didn't still haunt my nightmares. It seems like it's going to be an AWESOME opportunity, but it's more like high school with all of their politics and popularity. My direct manager had never even sold in her life. I was convinced for the first 6 months it was all me, I was the problem. I never had an issue with anxiety before. This place had me on a very high-dose of depression/anxiety medicine for the first time in my life.

Management is inept. In my time there almost the entire C-Suite turned over. They invested alot of time and money into training but it was some of the most ineffective training I've ever been apart of. Upwork trains us to sell this platform as a crucial hiring tool and none of my clients saw Upwork as that. There is a fundamental mismatch in how Upwork views itself vs how clients view Upwork and until Upwork realizes that no one wants to use them as a main hiring tool (my clients only wanted Upwork as a supplemental tool), they will continue to fail. They also laid off 15% of the workforce and clawed back a portion of our severance after we ad already signed and agreed to the package. I made financial decisions based on the severance amount that was originally agreed to that I would not have made had I known a large portion of our severance was going to be not delivered as promised. I have been financially harmed by Upwork's negligence