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      4.1

      85% would recommend to a friend

      (8,447 total reviews)
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      Matt Barrie

      91% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      Freelancer has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 8,447 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Freelancer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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      8K reviews
      1.0
      Nov 19, 2015

      Built on pretense

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The best reasons to work at Freelancer are all gone. The best and the smartest have left.

      Cons

      The technology stack is unmaintainable. Poor architectural vision has resulted in a "distributed monolith". If you take a role here, you will not work on new or interesting technical problems. Instead you will merely inherit projects which have a huge knowledge gap as everyone that ever worked on them has now left. Your career path or goals are unimportant. Do not expect regular reviews. On the up side, hang around and eventually your superiors will quit or be fired, which may result in a "promotion". Salary is well below market/industry rates. If you're currently working at Freelancer, shop around you can easily get a 20-30% pay bump elsewhere.

      1.0
      Oct 23, 2014

      If you have ANY other options, don't accept any offer from Freelancer.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Honestly, I can't think of one. But seeing as I have to write 20 words I suppose that some of the people were ok.

      Cons

      This list is too long to fit in here. In a nutshell, this is the most disorganised, fearful, hopeless, witless, frustrating company that I've ever seen the inside of. Somebody was fired or left ever second day, seriously. The turnover of staff was shocking. These clowns seem to think that they're actually of a high standard in their product and their methodology. All I can say is that they must be completely ignorant, as well as disorganised, to think that way. If you have no other options, then ok, fine, consider joining. But if you're of any ability and can work somewhere else, do so. Also, please note that the reason that the rating of this company is so high in here is because actually Freelancers (i.e: people who work in the platform rather than with the company) are writing reviews. All of the actual employees of Freelancer have left similar reviews to this one.

      1.0
      Jul 27, 2015

      Negative/Non-Existant Engineering Culture

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good office location - Small teams

      Cons

      - No focus on quality engineering - No focus on building a great product, only on finding new ways to suck money out of the users - Slowly outsourcing all engineers to Manilla - Terrible pay - No stock for employees

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