Toptal reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(758 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 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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758 reviews
1.0
Nov 15, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Used to be a great company - Incredible talent with core team members, but unfortunately they were laid off

Cons

- CEO, Taso, does not trust his leaders and prefers to be ill informed making knee jerk decisions with far reaching consequences that negatively impact the customer experience - CEO does not understand (nor seeks to understand) how to properly mature and scale a company. He continually looks for “silver bullet” solutions based on minimal research, which explains such a high turnover with the C-level team - CEO needs to be held accountable by a Board of Directors. His behaviors and “leadership” is appalling, and he has proven he’s unable to sustain a long-term vision for growth.

2.0
Oct 17, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

In times of prosperity, it was a great company—even incompetent product leadership couldn't ruin it.

Cons

It's astonishing how the incompetent product leadership has driven this company to the brink of ruin. A high-ego individual in charge of Product has been successfully playing their games for years. Somehow, they managed to gain the CTO's trust and have been covering up failures ever since. Constantly unsuccessful product initiatives with negative feedback? Just hide it, or at least blame the stakeholders. If it gets out, call it a "valuable lesson learned." Initiatives proposed by stakeholders? No chance. We’re always too busy working on our own supposedly “impactful” initiatives. ROI calculations in impact assessments? Why should we bother? We know our initiatives don’t bring any real benefits. Instead, let’s blame Growth for not generating enough leads. Underperforming PMs who fail to provide specs on time? Let’s pin it on Engineering—after all, they’re the ones responsible for delivering these initiatives. As for PM performance management, despite numerous obvious cases, we never address it because that would ruin the narrative of having a "top-notch team." The company has downsized by almost 70%, yet the same people are still in charge... Let’s see how long it will take to finally hold accountable the people who have nearly destroyed this once-great company.

1.0
Nov 29, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The job is fully remote and good salary.

Cons

You never know what is true or false, From one day to another, (even with good metrics), the lead/manager can tell you everything is great, and tells you that you are doing good job, and in the next month you get lay off. A complete unsecure company which (as per my humble career), you better never trust.

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