Loosing its appeal day by day - Talent Ops Specialist Toptal Employee Review

3.0
Jul 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Interesting problems can be tackled, in case you get the resources to do so. • Ability to work 100% remotely from almost anywhere in the world. • Travel perks for some roles. • Flexible schedule. • Solid compensation.

Cons

• CEO is well known to be disrespectful, verbally aggressive, and diminishing of the success of teams and people he does not personally like. • Critique is dismissed on all levels and it feels more like a military camp than a company of educated and experienced adults enjoying constructive discussion to come up with the best solutions. • A ridiculous level of micromanagement is strongly encouraged by the CEO/top brass and practiced throughout the company. • Needed resources to solve various issues and advance the teams productivity are extremely hard to get. • Strong preference for robots/task executors, not people, creativity and meaningful contributions. • Uninspiring company-wide meetings running overtime for the sake of platitudes. • Massive lack of authentic leadership and lots of hypocrisy. • Lack of direction. • Tons of politics.

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5.0
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Pros

Professional and interested in quality work.

Cons

Not really a con, but more work waiting than hours allow.

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1.0
Jul 3, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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