Culture of Fear & Shadiness - Anonymous employee Toptal Employee Review

Would regularly get rid of employees with no notice and no explanation, leaving their teammates confused and worried they were next. Weeks of hard work were thrown away because teams no longer had the bandwidth to support projects, and employees were left to take on the extra work of those that were randomly let go. For months Taso (CEO) told employees on their monthly company meetings that they did not anticipate any layoffs, that there was no need to worry, and that any employees that would be let go would be due to reasons strictly performance related. In February 2023 they laid off hundreds of employees who were shocked and confused, one department at a time, so the other departments didn't know it was coming. Severance was low compared to other tech companies. Laid off employees had no time to collect white-labelled project examples to use to secure their next role or any personal items saved in their Google drives.