Toptal Reviews & Product Details

Being able to work with good clients all over the world

Not having paid vacations and not having a dependable job where you don't know when it will end

Reaching clients all over the world and not worrying about getting paid

Freedom to work remotely, varied projects and clients.

Lack of office can make the experience lonely at times.

User experience and design related problems to do with FinTech and healthcare primarily.

Hassle-free creative work! As a designer, you can focus on doing your best creative work without worrying about missed payments, late invoices, or your sales pipeline. Toptal handles all of them.

I haven't had any issues. I did have a couple of friends apply to the platform, and the process was ok - till the last interview. It seems those interviews can get somewhat biased based on the person that interviews you. However, you do get another chance to take that interview again in 3-6months.

Excellent sales pipeline with plenty of jobs to choose from. Streamlined custom calendar and inverview setup for you and clients.Big plus is the automatic time-zone converter for both interviews and workhours.

The fact that I'm able to do what I love without worrying about how to get paid, as well as working with top clients from around the world remotely.

Nothing to dislike based on my experience.

Toptal has allowed me to help different clients worldwide build their products with excellent user experience. One of the benefits I've realized is working with very big brands and learning new things everything from a very supportive community.

The ability to pick different work styles and my own hours. The ability to browse different types of client. The pre-vetting means most clients can get straight on with work rather than lengthy interviews and tests.

It would be helpful to have a couple more software tools available under a corporate license.

Work life balance is much better. Global client list and experience grows quickly. Fast payments.

It's worth joining Toptal just for the community - the best of the best in many disciplines are a Slack message away. There truly is no comparison between Toptal and other 'freelancer' platforms. Toptal isn't a 'race to the bottom' marketplace where the lowest bidder wins the day. If you can walk the talk, Toptal recruiters will hook you up with clients that are happy to pay a fair price for your skills. Toptal isn't a faceless machine. It's all about the people and some of the best people I've worked with have been Toptal people

Slightly contradicting my earlier point about 'race to the bottom' marketplace, Toptal is a global network and consequently, there will always be similarly skilled people living in lower cost-of-living countries that can do the same job for less. When it comes to deciding your billing rate, you're largely left to your own devices, without knowing what the going rate is. Set it too high and you could sit on the shelf for a long time, too low and you're losing income unnecessarily. I'd like to see a 'zone of possible agreement' feature. Maybe I'll suggest that to the team!

I've been a freelancer for 20+ years. Often working with agents that have no technical skill and couldn't care less which one of the resumes they sent to a client gets picked, as long as they get their percentage. Toptal doesn't work like that. Everybody involved in the organization has a deep knowledge of their clients and the technical skills they're recruiting for. They work with their talent pool to find opportunities to deliver value to organizations large and small. With Toptal you feel that your skills and experience are valued. That's rarely the case with traditional recruitment agents and it's certainly not the case with online freelance marketplaces.

it let us flexibility, want to work from anywhere, want to freelance without having to worry about finding clients

Very strict criteria for having an approved profile. Sometimes its seems impossible for getting a profile to be approved by a reviewer.

I am a freelance software developer. I make web and mobile apps. I get paid well for my work

Way of questioning is very good to check my ability.

Questions are quietly lengthy so take more time .

My own Ability test shown very clearly.

The things I value the most are the projects, for there are always great projects to choose. The application process for a project is simple, and the payment flow is smooth. All these factors help me save an ample amount of time which I use towards the billable hour. The process is clean and safe.

Nothing from which I can think. Everything is nice.

The development problems varied from client to client.

The turn by turn onboarding and notifying about the next step. the whole process looks like it's tailored for individuals.

The fact that there is a waiting period of 30 days, if you cannot pass the test.

The problem that I am solving is to set a benchmark for who I am, and I want to be the top 3%