Upwork reviews

3.8

60% would recommend to a friend

(631 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 631 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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631 reviews
3.0
Jan 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The staff are great, their recruiting team is excellent. Some of the best and the brightest work there.

Cons

LT doesn't seem to have a future plan for the company, constantly doing layoffs to compensate for a successful revenue generating vision.

1.0
Dec 28, 2024

Toxic environment and no job security

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good weekly pay! That's it!

Cons

Toxic work environment Bootlicking culture at its worst Top level management has no sense of where they want to take the company Product decisions are based less on actual customer and ground reality and more on the whims and last nights dreams of C level execs Career growth depends on your current level and team as well as the mood of your Engineering Manager or Director Can get laid off any minute without any warning! Beware of any upcoming earnings release schedule. As history has proven over the last couple of years, before every earnings call irrespective of whether the company is in profit or loss layoffs can happen to offset for any loss of public image to C Level execs and board. Mostly single digit increments maybe once a year of you are lucky.

2.0
Nov 18, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Public company with established processes.

Cons

Micromanagement encouraged at the highest levels. Toxic energy.

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