Great people, great team and processes. No transparency! A place to learn - Senior Software Engineer Toptal Employee Review

4.0
30 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, great teammates and mentors, and structured processes for product building. It was one of the places I most enjoyed, learned, and grew professionally and personally. Has/had a vast diversity of people's origins and cultures, at least in the managers and general employees, a lot of knowledge sharing. It was kind of one of my dream jobs before joining, and the parts that caused me to create that dream were the parts I lived there and accomplished.

Cons

C-Level and executives, no sense decisions. There was too much expended on marketing. Compensation is below the market, and it is almost impossible to get the benefits that matter. They hired many people for months even when it wasn't truly necessary, and a few weeks after it stopped, they started laying off randomly tons of engineers when the features became stable. However, there was no sign of it coming. There is no transparency about employees' job situations and or salary ranges, as the career process said. 'A hypergrowth company, as they called it, with consistent profit margins regularly shared to all employees.' The career progress structure changes every few months, and it is almost impossible to progress further unless you have good contacts.

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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

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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
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