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      Toptal

      Engaged Employer

      Toptal reviews

      3.8

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (756 total reviews)
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      Taso DuVal

      61% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Toptal has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 756 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      756 reviews
      1.0
      Apr 1, 2023

      Culture of fear and stagnation

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay and time off are good. Contact with certain new technologies also helps to keep things interesting.

      Cons

      Focus on engineering excellence is minimal; you have to fight for it. Work pressure is high, and there's an assumption that things "just" take at most a few days to deliver, no matter the complexity. You must be a generalist, jumping from one ticket to another without deepening your knowledge about any stack. Management at all levels fears the CEO and does not allow sincere conversations on Slack. If you start a meaningful thread about an important topic, someone will interrupt it and say it should happen over Zoom (probably out of fear the CEO or middle management lurks in the channel). Contrary opinions are not welcome, and it got some people fired in the last layoffs. Overall not a culture of improvement.

      5.0
      Apr 29, 2020

      Great place to work overall

      Support engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I'm a Core team member, not a Talent in Toptal's network (freelancer). If you want to work alongside very talented people, be challenged on a daily basis, help shape the future of work while enjoying a fully remote work environment with flexible working hours, this is the place to be. To top it all off, you're paid in US dollars which can be quite interesting if you're living in a place where the US currency is stronger than the local one.

      Cons

      No benefits for international employees, so be sure to keep that in mind when negotiating your salary

      2.0
      Jan 30, 2024

      Poor leadership the higher you go in the hierarchy

      Senior engineer
      Recommend
      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.

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