Upwork reviews

3.8

60% would recommend to a friend

(630 total reviews)
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Hayden Brown

57% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Upwork has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 630 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Upwork employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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630 reviews
5.0
Jan 22, 2016

It's an awesome place to work again

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. It's a really cool business - forward looking, growing - I am still here after over five years, and I have had no dearth of offers from other places in the area 2. Socially conscious business and company, I feel warm and fuzzy whenever I talk to our customers think we changed their lives, or that we are indispensable to their business 3. Free Food, Comp for gym, really fun environment, 4. A management team that is approachable and open to feedback 5. HR team that's authentic and truly cares about our happiness and culture A note about the some of the other reviews, I know there are comments below about teams being political, I see that as a result of a merger between companies that were previously competitors. Mergers are hard, but the leadership did a great job of pulling the company out of the doldrums and we are an effective, open, no nonsense company again. I have seen the political issues magically disappear with changes in leadership and the team - so take the below reviews with a grain of salt.

Cons

The only con I can think of (if you care) is that we have a highly distributed team. It's part of our culture - I love it, you might not. It's a personal preference.

1.0
Jan 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work at home Wednesday was a useful perk. Free food was particularly helpful at the Mountain View location since it's quite a drive to any restaurants (unless you wanted to eat at the Symantec cafe)

Cons

While it was still oDesk the company was great but nothing seemed to work after the merger. The politics between the former-oDeskers and former-Elancers really slowed everything down to a crawl (or even backwards).

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