Where are the adults? This place is a train wreck - Avis employé Anonymous Upwork

1,0
14 sept. 2023
Recommande
Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Pros are few and far between. Avoid at all costs unless you’re destitute. For the tldr, search review terms like “dumpster fire,” “lies,” and “leadership”—that ought to give you a pretty solid idea of how this place runs. • ICs are wonderful and hardworking • unlimited PTO but you can’t use it because of the constant hysterics

Inconvénients

• TERRIBLE, erratic leadership at all levels who act like impulsive children chasing shiny new toys •Constantly shifting priorities • Awful product built on an outdated tech stack • Major turnover, talented people quickly leave, so nobody knows what’s going on • no process or documentation because everyone quits • Top-heavy org without enough ICs: tons of unseasoned VPs/directors • twice the work for half the pay of real tech companies • toxic leadership, no psychological safety • layoffs every year • several outright lies during my interviews, not ethical

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5,0
25 févr. 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Great people, very approachable, interesting problems

Inconvénients

A lot of short term thinking and near future optimization

1,0
7 nov. 2025
Employé (anonyme)
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

It's remote, and most ICs are talented and kind.

Inconvénients

Oh my, there are so many clowns at this company—nearly all of them in leadership. Mostly executive cronies from dinosaur companies like CareerBuilder and Yahoo, who are out of touch with the tech industry at large. This hysterical leadership shifts strategy every 3 months or so, resulting in whiplash for their poor staff as well as frequent layoffs and reorgs. In my time at this company, I’ve seen nearly every -ism you can imagine, frequently and repeatedly: racism, cronyism, sexism, and nepotism. The business model exploits freelancers, essentially offshoring work for clients (cheap global labor) while the company takes a hefty share via predatory fees, which are the majority of record company profits. Unfortunately, AI will cannibalize many freelancer jobs on the platform. Although the company is delusional in its own “native AI” progress—their models are unusable slop despite huge investments—other companies will likely provide useful tech in the near future, particularly agentic AI. I could go on, but the bottom line is that this is a grossly unethical company you should avoid if you can. I’ll also add that many of the positive reviews here are from USERS of Upwork, not EMPLOYEES. This results in a falsely positive, rosy view of a toxic company. I wish Glassdoor had a filter that could address this for people considering employment at Upwork. Their rating is likely closer to a 2.7 if those irrelevant reviews could be excluded from the data set.

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