This company is rotted - Designer Toptal Employee Review

1.0
1 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work Some individual ICs are cool

Cons

CEO CEO CEO CEO CEO and I can't stress this enough, CEO. Second up, literally everything the CEO has enacted. There are some talented people who work at this company. They keep their heads down and try to deliver as best they can. They generally get laid off or fired because they try and follow some semblance of product development process as opposed to enacting whatever the whim of Taso is that day. The rest are sycophants who have drunk the company kool-aid that they're the top 1%. I don't know what "Top 1% they're referring to. Maybe the top 1% of people desperate enough to apply for a full time job at this place, maybe, but it can't be the top 1% of talent. Taso himself is a bottom-of-the-barrel CEO who has no business running a company, and he's hired bottom-of-the-barrel yes-men who can't get hired at a Radio Shack, never mind a reputable place of employment. Google this guy's name, take a look at what he's said and done, and then decide if you want to work here. Just avoid it. The pittance they'll pay you and the paltry benefits aren't worth the weeks, maybe months, probably not years of trauma you'll have to endure. Unemployment is probably a better bet.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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 Jun 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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