Toptal reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(758 total reviews)
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Taso DuVal

64% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Toptal has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 758 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Toptal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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758 reviews
1.0
Apr 1, 2023
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Pros

Pay and time off are good. Contact with certain new technologies also helps to keep things interesting.

Cons

Focus on engineering excellence is minimal; you have to fight for it. Work pressure is high, and there's an assumption that things "just" take at most a few days to deliver, no matter the complexity. You must be a generalist, jumping from one ticket to another without deepening your knowledge about any stack. Management at all levels fears the CEO and does not allow sincere conversations on Slack. If you start a meaningful thread about an important topic, someone will interrupt it and say it should happen over Zoom (probably out of fear the CEO or middle management lurks in the channel). Contrary opinions are not welcome, and it got some people fired in the last layoffs. Overall not a culture of improvement.

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