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
May 28, 2026
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Pros

1. Excellent Pricing 2. Geneue Big and Global Clients 3. Pricing at your Choice 4. Top Class Payment System 5. Job Matcher who listen to you when and where required. 6. Always Real Job not a Job where person working as Freelancer to some international client and post job which you do during your parttime.

Cons

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Toptal Response
3w
Thank you for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.
1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None. Avoid. This is a sinking ship.

Cons

As others have mentioned, the leadership of Toptal is very poor. Constant changes of direction, unstable leaders, a product with tons of competition. They also have extremely high turnover. Even if you get a job here, you'll be looking again in under a year.

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Toptal Response
3w
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