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Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce, powered by a global network of more than 20,000 highly vetted professionals in technology, design, finance, marketing, and strategic consulting. Only the top 3% of applicants are accepted into our network. Founded in 2010, Toptal has been trusted by more than 30,000 clients, from the Fortune 500 to cutting-edge startups. We provide a variety of services to drive businesses forward, from on-demand talent and teams to complete end-to-end solutions. For more information, please visit www.toptal.com.
Toptal Reviews Summary
Toptal has a rating of 3.9 stars from 224 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Toptal most frequently mention great experience, high quality and screening process. Toptal ranks 6th among Freelancing sites.
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I'm a backend engineer and I'm grateful to Toptal for the opportunity to work on diverse projects :D
Toptal is an excellent platform for top-tier freelancers, with exceptional support and a track record of connecting me with outstanding clients. With a vetting process as rigorous as Toptal's, they ensure their clients can confidently expect top-quality work.
Through Toptal I've got in touch with an innovative company that has invented a new type of speaker, based on a solid state technology.
As a complete new product, they required a special test bench in order to have the possibility to test and qualify the product before reaching the market.
I was involved in developing a kind of low level driver between Windows PC and the underlying hardware: it's made by a FPGA code (to build custom hardware peripherals), an USB 3.0 for fast communication with the host and an API DLL to let application software reach out the hardware.
Project was well organized, Toptal helped me in focusing on the technology side, taking care of all legal and administrative stuff, contributing in the success of the project.
I had a pleasure to connect with Mentava, an educational startup, which is building an app that teaches kids age above 2 how to read.
All the team members were one of the best and kindest people I've ever worked with.
This is my first Toptal client and I have to say, it was a positive experience. The client knew what they wanted and had reasonable expectations for the project. Communication was excellent and tasks were well laid out. I wish my future clients would be like this. I hope to work with this client in the future
I'm more than happy to share that I've concluded my first engagement in the US and it was a great experience in every aspect. I'm thankful for TopTal giving me this opportunity.
The job was good but:
I have a "Profile Champion" and i tried more than 6 month to have a job with Toptal. I was obligated to reduce a lot my daily rate to have a first one. I hope it's because it's the first one, i expect from Toptal a better value for me.
TopTal is great for discovery both ways!
- For clients to find and hire talents
- For talents to find jobs
Their process instills confidence in both parties and there is virtually no nonsense (like scams, non-payments, etc.)
As a software developer, I've had the privilege of working on Toptal and I must say, it's been an outstanding experience. Toptal truly understands the needs of developers and has created an environment that fosters success.
The range of projects available is impressive. Whether you're into web development, mobile apps, AI, or any other tech field, you'll find exciting projects that match your expertise. The variety keeps things interesting and allows me to continually learn and grow in my field.
Toptal also gave me opportunity to improve my skills through several continuous education programs it offers. I am happy to be part of this network of Top Talents.
Great to work with and provided me with really interesting problems to solve! Would always work with them again!
Toptal has been providing the best opportunities to work on different projects with different people from all over the world. I have been learning and gaining experience a lot. I am thankful.
I have experience of working with both startups and enterprises, which was possible due to the coordination of toptal in between.
I hired a developer for an 8 week project. I paid weekly and total was $24,259.
The communication from Curcio J Sobrinho, my developer from Brazil, was very light (over skype) each week. I'd often check in and ask if he had any questions or needed anything. Always it was "nope, doing good." I started to wonder if he was doing anything and/or really understood the project.
At the end of our agreed-upon time, 8 weeks, he asked for "one additional week, no charge", which I gave. A week later this happened again, then again, then again...
8 weeks after the 8 week deadline, not wanting to irritate him by asking "are you even doing anything?", I emailed Toptal and asked what one should do in a situation like this.
Their response was to open an investigation, which ticked off the developer, who sloppily "finished the project" in 24 hours, sent me.apk files, and said "since you involved Toptal, this ends my work and our communication".
Upon testing the.apk files, they don't work. Opening the repository in Android Studio results in numerous errors.
Omar Landaverry at Toptal, over several emails, said basically I was on my own. He stated they "allowed" Curcio to finish the project (the hurried 24 hour delivery) and implied I was lucky Toptal didn't decide to charge me for the additional 8 weeks.
I now have a bunch of modified code to turn over to a new dev at a different agency to see if they want to work with it or start from scratch.
Toptal Director of Engineering Ariel Roitman, and my Account Manager Mitch Penrod were quite pleasant and did a good job kicking things off for me. But all downhill after that.
Good service. Their service is very good. I will use their service in future. Would recommended. Thanks
Exciting projects and access to a network of super-smart colleagues. I don't have to think about legal and payments, just focusing on delivering great software.
I am really pleased in how engagement went.
It was a rocky start, where at first things weren't defined clearly and completely and first couple of deadlines were short, but shortly after we figured out inside the team how to approach sprints better everything clicked and we did some amazing work.
I am very pleased with Ashwini, I reported to her, both on personal and professional level, she was truly great.
I appreciate opportunity to work for this client, this was good job.
It was really a great experience. That was my first journey as a freelancer. Client was clear with the expectations and allocated the work accordingly.
It was my first experience and it has been great to work clients. Toptal has very good clients and its onboarding process and communication with client is amazing. Clients are very passionate and professional about working and collaborating to get best result. Client shared documented scope of work items and they are very clear about their goal.
There was no wastage of effort as we had bi-weekly meeting and had incremental deployment and and releases in true lean and agile manner. Documentation and KT was so smooth that it happened in parallel and client is able to handle the code and local deployment also.
Thank you Toptal for providing such opportunities to work with great people.
It's a great experience to work with Toptal and with its amazing staff, services, coaching, and guidance. Their online app and portal are very useful to search for a job and after-job engagement service. I really appreciate and ant to be with Toptal long time.
Past 10 years it's first time I encountered this type of challenge. It's hard to find such interesting projects that actually have realistic budget allocated to get it completed.
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