A great place to work - Senior Backend Engineer Toptal Employee Review

5.0
Feb 20, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This review is based on my experience as a Toptal Core Team member. The freelancer network is different in many aspects (e.g., benefits). * 100% remote; * Working with a world-class team of highly skilled developers and learning a lot from them; * Healthy work environment; * Good work-life balance; * Good salary; * Paid vacation (~20 days a year) and paid leave on national holidays (~7 days a year); * Code quality and code reviews are taken seriously. * Incentive and many opportunities for learning and improving our professional skills. * When a new version of Ruby or Rails comes up, we start using it quickly. In this way, we are using the latest stable versions most of the time.

Cons

* None that I can think of so far.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Professional and interested in quality work.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 3, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Met some good dedicated employees and freelance workers.

Cons

Lack of any real industry solutions or capabilities since 100% of delivery services are freelance contractors. Model has been successful as providing staff augmentation to clients, but all intellectual capital and outcomes are owned by the clients or the freelancer. Toptal is simply a staffing platform broker who marks up the freelance talent. Great if you need a plumber, but not if you're planning to build a bathroom.

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