Upwork

In November 2016, I heard about Upwork first time and joined. Even though, It was long way to get hired on my first project in Feb 2020, I am very grateful for everything that Upwork provides me as opportunities.
Firstly, I am getting paid higher than my local jobs by advertising myself in high-income regions of the world.
Secondly, I am very happy to work with my favorite coffee shop.
Third, I really believe that It is the most important to have experience in order to get hired and deliver great projects on Upwork. Freelancers really need to know what they organizations need related to their industry. But, at the end of everything, the only thing that will make me odd on Upwork would be my specialty, skillsets combining with my experience and motivated mindset to tackle the rigorous project.
I am very grateful that Upwork is being a part of my life.

I work as a freelancer since April 2016, and it's amazing how Upwork can help connect clients and freelancers on projects. It's not always simple to find a project as a freelancer, but it has nothing to do with Upwork, it has to do with the way we market our skills. That's where Upwork helps a lot as well - with the new catalog function and the new Upwork interface, it is done in a few clicks. The Connect system is fair compared to other platform where the membership is expensive. It is secure. The support team is always here to help if necessary. Well - give it a try, and you'll catch what I mean.

Upwork gave me hope when I had my first client. Being a full time mom who left the corporate world, I searched for wfh set up that will allow me to help my husband finance our everyday expenses without having the necessity to leave our home! A kind of relief, indeed!

When the pandemic came due to Covid lots of individuals all over the world has the experience to be jobless. Because many establishments shut down their business and can't longer manage it due to the financial effect that Covid brings in our society until even right now. Upwork is one of the main bridges to millions of talent who is believing that they can have a job despite what happened to us.

I am middle-size company director and I hired near 100 freelancers on upwork.com to do my projects. One day when I had to review job & pay, I received message from upwork that I "send too much private messages", and that I am locked to send more ones. By theirs own rules, I have to use theirs private messages and not email or Skype to communicate with freelancers, and now they say that I use too much messages... are they crazy? I could not to contact people and pay them money, so near 100 freelancers didn't receive theirs money because of upwork crazy rules. The for sure don't need big clients who honestly hire freelancers and don't propose to speak via email and pay via PayPal. They prefer actually to force me to not use theirs expensive internal payment and theirs buggy messages and to work with freelancers directly.

I have a lot to thank Upwork for. The platform gave me a great foundation to start my business. I still use the platform to receive project requests, some of which are irrelevant, some of which are exciting, and a lot in the middle.
I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone, but it certainly worked for me. After one year, I now rank as one of the most reputable freelancers in my industry.

Upwork hires criminals. I discovered this when I found that one of their freelancers has 3 convictions of violent crimes. UpWork responded that they do not discriminate and what a freelancer does with their personal time is not their business. However, some freelancers meet face-to-face and could be using Upwork to cause harm or commit more crimes. UpWork has no idea if any of the freelancers they "connect" with others are violent offenders, predators, sex offenders, pedophiles, etc. because they feel they have no duty to let you know this information.

I would never recommend them.

Upwork is a colossal predatory business. I've been on the platform for 4 years and saw business practices and treatments that only the worst of corporate monopolies can get away with. Especially after upwork swallowed Elance which was head and shoulders better.

Contractors are screwed with high commission fees which DOUBLED last year and a rating system which forces contractors to constantly drum up new business for these corporate bastards just to keep their 5 star rating which is NOT based on actual performance but also on how much business you constantly bring in to upwork. So you can do flawless work and still get penalized.

Then there is the notoriously bad and unresponsive customer service were you deal with $1/hr robotic contractors from India who show absolute disdain and lack of care when dealing with contractor issues.

If you are a self employed freelancer or a small business offering services, unless you enjoy being a mistreated slave don't just avoid upwork RUN!

Its a great platform for explore self into entire world. I am highly recommended, because its always check your Real time Activity, Strong Payment Term specially for Freelancer. 90% of client has satisfied of work whose giving his best on work and communication. This platform save my life and my family is so happy with this because i need work and client need satisfaction so we are stay on smoothly.

Today quote for all newbies developer: Patience when not one work comes to you, because there so many great developer on-boarding and client don't know which is the best for his/her job, So always login with joy and with positive energy.

Thanks
RJ

I had joined in Upwork in hopes of learning new skills and create a career out of it. Well, it wasn't in vain because I have scored few projects and I am still working on some of them. It is really a great platform to learn, to work for companies and clients worldwide without leaving your room and to earn a good amount of money. There are over ******* jobs posted and it makes the probability of getting a project high. I'd encourage everyone to join Upwork, whether they have some extra time to work or full time, everyone is welcome there!