Toptal Reviews & Product Details

Connection with clients all over the world. Freedom to work from anywhere, and I can choose my pay rate.

Timezone differences since most clients and projects are located in the USA.

Connecting developers with top companies that are looking for developers. It benefits me since I am a developer at Toptal, and I get the opportunity to connect with leading companies.

Working with good clients, high salaries.

They don't have payouts into cryptocurrency, which I think should be really easy to do.

They finds clients for you, and handle the payment. Also they guarantee that all parties are well qualified and the requirements are always met.

1. Jobs for me (Go Dev) are always available. If you wait a week, you'll have more choice. 2. Hiring process for gigs is considerably quicker than for a regular paying jobs, even if you have to code a few. Clients trust the Toptal's hiring process. 3. In your résumé you always appear employed even when you take a few months' long pauses / retirements which is really great for your health.

Toptal takes money from my payouts I dislike most. Communication with Toptal management sometimes leaves you unhappy. If client is upset, you are always considered to be the guilty party even if that is not so.

From a freelancer's perspective Toptal delivers you clients. Good clients: solvent, trustworthy, and with established provenance. This is more or less it. And it does well.

What is unique about Toptal is that once you pass the initial screening process, you can focus on doing only what you love without worrying about payments and finding work. Toptal does all this for you. Great benefits for education and learning and a very responsive support team make everything work seamlessly.

The screening process is necessary to guarantee quality, but from a freelancer's point of view, it takes such a long time that you start to question whether it is worth it.

Toptal is solving problems of finding good clients that need complex things finished. Toptal is also handling payments and client satisfaction. Toptal also supports me in the working process and gives me education opportunities.

The Toptal recruiters are very professional and friendly at all times.

Not having a project lined up so you can roll into the next one; not having one point of contact you can count on to be considered for roles.

I like that I don't have to manage the payment side of freelancing; if I'm having an issue with a client Toptal helps to solve those issues.

Process and the way we work and especially it completely remote job.

Nothing I felt like dislike or disagree till the day.

In Toptal, we will get multiple types of industry projects and as a product designer you will get multiple opportunities to explore and get fun by creating amazing stuff.

Great community in Slack. A lot of opportunities to work for solid companies. Toptal Academy courses to learn new skills.

The initial application process was quite tough.

Helps me find a place where I can put my skills to best use.

Once approved, Toptal recruiters often reach out to talent with fantastic opportunities. This eliminates the hassle of finding clients as in many other marketplaces. The clients are top-notch, working hours are flexible and you always get paid on time.

I don't dislike anything about how Toptal works.

Because Toptal selects the top 3% of talent the clients don't have to vet them again before hiring them. This speeds up the hiring process which is beneficial for both the clients and the talent.

Work is great, payments are always on time, you get to be part of a larger community

There is not much to dislike, everything seems to be going well.

Toptal provides a platform for connecting freelancers with businesses that are looking to hire them. As a freelancer, Toptal makes it easier for me to find new jobs, and receive timely payments.

It was super easy to get matched with jobs and you get paid every 2 weeks!

The initial effort to join Toptal and to set up your profile is quite a lot. Also because you have a limited time to do every single step so there's a lot of pressure.

Getting me some extra work when I have extra time and I get paid exactly what I want to get paid.

Always paid on time, this is the best part of Toptal as that's the thing that worries the most "will I get paid after doing the work", with Toptal the answer is always YES

there is no personalized career growth plan, you always have to do the client research for yourself, for example, a good practice is for those who just join to have a professional that helps you find the job that best fits your knowledge, define your correct rate, and also to let you know what you need to learn in order to improve your opportunities and rate, the same should happen when you finish with an engagement. i have to say that a constant while working with toptal is that you are lost without knowing the next steps in the process.

For me one of the bisgest issues was they payments i always had the bad luck with some clients that after some time just stop the payments without giving you a reason, normally was a budget issue but they never come clean with that, but with toptal that issue is solved as they take care of defining that with the client upfront.

I totally feel like I have stable work, not a freelancer. Commpany has great recruiters and employees, education, great payments system. And most of all I like the clients they have.

It is difficult to pass all the tests to Toptal, and it is definetelly worth doing it.

Searching for clients, schedules, payments, education etc.

For every situation, I can find answers from the community or from the website itself. Also, it is easy to find engagements on the platform and build up networking from that.

I picked up long-term jobs and it would be nice if the rate was reviewed or adjusted after some period. This could benefit the developer if the client likes the work being done.

Toptal helps clients to get well-qualified developers to build solutions and I'm building up my profile within the engagements.

The platform is very complete and easy to use

You need to compete with many developers

Makes it easy to find a project as a freelancer.

Toptal makes things very easy. It is extremely clear about everything.

I don't get a notification every time the client changes the end date for a job.

Toptal connects my talent with companies that need it.

I love the way Toptal takes care of everything so that the talents can concentrate and do what they are good at. Wonderful support, communication and structured very well.

I've had two clients and both have very low-quality (bad) code. The client I ended engagement with wasn't structured at all, struggled financially. Didn't know the way to go with dev. Found their way to go a bit chaotic.

Toptal helps professional to find great clients and let's them concentrate at what they are good in.

Toptal is an incredible talent community where I have the chance to work with excellent global clients with autonomy to design great products and services. The job offer, back office and payments tools give me piece of minf

Toptal is an incredible talent community where I have the chance to work for excellent global clients with autonomy to design products and services. The job dashboard, the back office and payments tools give me piece of mind to just do my work and get (well) rewarded for it.

Working on my own terms: time, location, rate, projects. I find the right projects and clients to work with something I feel proud of being a part to deliver and expand my design craft.

How things are well described and structured. It's really easy to understand and navigate the website and the community is great and very responsive. You'll get all the help and support you need at no time,

Sometimes when applying to a job, you don't get any feedback from the matcher. It's easy to understand that someone else was selected before you but it would be great if we could get some feedback and status update on our applications

How to better handle my time and learning new programming skills and improve the ones I already have.

Work-life balance is perfect at Toptal!.

I don't have any suggested improvements.

Finding great companies and projects to work upon

- Always getting paid on time. - I can set the rate I want. - Most of the clients are good.

It might take some time to find a new Gig, mainly for the skills which are less popular.

Toptal is making it easy to find a client who pays well & on time. I worked on other freelancing platforms where most clients were looking for cheap work instead of quality work.