Cool Company - Backend Engineer Toptal Employee Review

5.0
Sep 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

One of the best points of Toptal is the work culture: flexible hours, good practices, always learning and so on. In addition, you can be in your comfort zone in your team or you can change team for learning more cool things if you want, I love that idea to keep improving yourself as engineer.

Cons

One of the downsides of working on Toptal is that the beginning is a little bit hard if you aren't used to a big remote company because you have to learn how everything works, it means that you can feel lost but only in the beginning.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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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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