A great place to work - Senior Backend Engineer Toptal Employee Review

5.0
20 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This review is based on my experience as a Toptal Core Team member. The freelancer network is different in many aspects (e.g., benefits). * 100% remote; * Working with a world-class team of highly skilled developers and learning a lot from them; * Healthy work environment; * Good work-life balance; * Good salary; * Paid vacation (~20 days a year) and paid leave on national holidays (~7 days a year); * Code quality and code reviews are taken seriously. * Incentive and many opportunities for learning and improving our professional skills. * When a new version of Ruby or Rails comes up, we start using it quickly. In this way, we are using the latest stable versions most of the time.

Cons

* None that I can think of so far.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Excellent Pricing 2. Geneue Big and Global Clients 3. Pricing at your Choice 4. Top Class Payment System 5. Job Matcher who listen to you when and where required. 6. Always Real Job not a Job where person working as Freelancer to some international client and post job which you do during your parttime.

Cons

I don't find any Cons for TopTal Freelancer Platform

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Toptal Response
3w
Thank you for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.
1.0
1 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None. Avoid. This is a sinking ship.

Cons

As others have mentioned, the leadership of Toptal is very poor. Constant changes of direction, unstable leaders, a product with tons of competition. They also have extremely high turnover. Even if you get a job here, you'll be looking again in under a year.

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Toptal Response
3w
Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention, as your input helps us improve.
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