Upwork

I have been able to quit my normal job and become a full time freelancer, and build and connect with amazing clients that I'm working with for the longer term. Thank you Upwork!

They are terrible company. If you dont trust me then please go ahead and try it...
I have hired a lady for website... she has given no input to get any work done in last 4 weeks and guess what they keep taking money from my account. After several messages i decided to cancel the contract but Next week they took money again from my account.
REMEMBER, ONCE YOU HAVE PUT YOUR ACCOUNT DETAIL YOU CAN NOT CANCEL IT. TRY IT.
Where ever they are they are making fortune from UK market and because they are international and out side of UK so they dont fall under UK legislation...
Please please just careful using this platform, you just lose the money and regret...

An excellent platform to find long-term and temporary cooperation all over the world. The support service works well, quickly helping to resolve issues for both customers and freelancers.

Very helpful people and very good escrow payment system. Working there for quite some time and never faced issues regarding client payments.

Must better than Freelancer.com.

My account has been suspended for one month, the customer service said it was a bug, but the technical team can't solve it and keep me waiting. I wonder if the technical team is really working.

I had hired a freelancer through upwork to design retail packaging for my product. I followed all the steps required through upwork, including a well-written contract with all the specifics. I paid the first payment in advance as I was asked by the freelancer. The freelancer failed to communicate after that and extracted the second payment out of escrow. When I lodged a complaint about it, I kept getting poor responses focused on giving me excuses on why and how they cannot get a hold of the freelancer and long cumbersome details on what an 'escrow' means etc. My point was that I essentially paid for a a product that I did not receive and the entire point of going through a company such as Upwork is that in such cases they can be the mediator. After a few weeks of writing long emails, I gave up. I kept being passed from one person to another and eventually was spending more in time dealing with the inefficient customer service at upwork rather than my business. It may be a good portal to find cheap skills but it is a high risk model due to its poor management. I would suggest to try one of the other websites, with better customer service.

If it wasn't from Upwork, I certainly would have been homeless by now.

With the whole world now resorting to online alternatives for their usual go-to places to get stuff done, Upwork was already far ahead of anyone in this business with the quality and reliability of the services they offer to their clients as well as freelancers. I think of Upwork as being one of the best 'employment broker' out there, having a solid customer base with a proven history of positive long-term client relationships. I have been on Upwork on a daily basis for almost a month now and have already had more than 15 successful proposals and over 10 contracts. By working with clients from all over the world looking for skilled and professional people, Upwork has been constantly working 24/7 on linking those clients with freelancers that would suit their needs best.

At the end of the day, I believe that it is clear to everyone that it is in Upwork's interest to look after everyone relying on their platform and services to earn a bit of money, be it their clients, the freelancers, or even themselves. As long as all of our goals are aligned, I can't think of any reason for which I would give them anything less than a 5-star rating.

To Upwork: Keep up the great work, keep growing and keep improving the design and ease of use of this golden platform of yours!

I have 100% successful jobs with 15 years account and I played according to their greedy rules: buy expensive connects to be able to post proposals but I tried for years and I get nothing no jobs in programming section at all after I was working full time in addition to this they wanted to verify my address so I sent them utility bills but they told me it is fake and closed my account permanently while the address was correct!

At first I thought it would be difficult like people say, but after trying to apply and get a job the first time, it was really amazing. The payment system is also very safe and fast

I could simply say that you can easily find a real job at Upwork as a Full time and you can also meet very nice people from the whole planet. Great experience to work with Upwork!