Upwork

These filthy scammers stole my hard earned money. Beware. I strongly advise people not to use this website. They will close your account under any excuse and. Believe they have many, many excuses to do this. Such as ¨Your skills are irrelevant¨ and other false claims. The bottom line is they steal your hard earned money.

ODesk was an answered prayer to me! I have been working in an office set up environment until I resigned due to changed circumstance. Gratefully, I found greener pasture at oDesk, now Upwork. Thank you so much for the privilege to work internationally while in the comfort of my home.

Long story short, I was in search of a job of a web developer. I tried to find local job in Russia but the prices companies offered for my job was unsatisfying for me. I had an upwork account and decided to try it working there. I grew up fast during 1 month. Picked up the first client and now I am having a bunch of clients and a lot of job. I raised my skills as a developer and come closer to my life goals much faster than I expected. Highly recommend this platform especially if you have some skills.

I am a video editor and I have only recently registered on upwork, but I have already received two orders that allowed me to earn good money. I have tried to offer my services on the local freelance exchanges in Russia and Ukraine before upwork, but I have not received any orders for a long time.
It seems to me that upwork offers freelancers great opportunities to make money.

I feel glad & proud to be a member of Upwork best platform.
Upwork is the best freelancing marketplace in the world. I love Upwork so much, because of its pattern, style & easy steps to work on it.
Their payment system is very fast to deliver the payment in your account & protecting from fraudsters and scammer activities. I really appreciate the Upwork supporting team, hope they will do all the best in the future as well.
Thanks & Regards
Shujahat Hussain

I'm working with upwork for a couple of months now. Due to my low activity, I have not done much job till now but whatever I did, I am very satisfied with the working environment. Its safe, its easy, its modest and most of all, it's fun.

It's really a great website for people who desire to work remotely and earn money from their skills and talents. This Website provides you 100% of safety during contracts. It's pleasure for me to work on this platform. Upwork brings me only positive emotions! Convenient, Fast, Safety.

I am a starting Freelancer. It is hard to find jobs at the beginning but Upwork gives very good tools to learn how to create a good profile and winning proposals. Of course at the beginning is very difficult to get jobs because some of them need experienced freelancers, or because you don't know hot to reach the client.
Only thing that I don't like about Upwork is that it charges 20% to the Freelancer when you have jobs for less than $500. I think for starters its too much since we are trying to make a living of it.

Upwork has forever made me into a writing entrepreneur. I consistently get clients and the staff at Upwork is there for you 24 hours a day to answer all of your questions. They are all very personable as well. It is a cumulative experience so the more work you get and the positive reviews come in, the greater your chances are of being hired each time.

Nothing else has lowered the barriers to freelancing as much as Upwork has. I had skills and experience, but no qualifications or certifications - and it didn't matter. I was able to find clients and start earning more than I had in my previous career. It's important to take time to learn how the system works, to continue to develop professionally, and to network and find other channels for finding clients, but Upwork got me going and kept me going for a long time like nothing else could.

Upwork is a very serious and professional website for freelancers and anyone who wants to do this kind of business. I warmly recommend everyone who has the will and who is persistent in their intentions.

Upwork is a great website that offers services and jobs to freelancers like me. It helps us to reach out to our clients easily and our monetary allowances are very safe. Well-recommended! Loving it forever!

I am very annoyed that they wasted my time. I have almost 30 years of experience but they were concerned with a mean nothing college degree. Whatever been dealing with that BS all mylife. I certainly don't need to make money for anyone but myself. That's why I started freelancing anyway- tired of others trying to make money off my skills.

This is just an other semi fraud company first of all they will deduct 20% from your earning, and they will randomly create blocks on your account.

I had 60 connects available i used just 20 and got account suspended, reason told by site administration was that i 5 to 10 contract application.

They allow 60 connects and by just using 5 of them you get you account suspended better not uses this website waste of time and may be a future scam in making.

I have used this site for several freelance projects. I also help clients in my non-profit to start their own businesses and have recommended Upwork to them. Because of this Upwork suspended my account claiming I had multiple accounts. They will not tell me why they think this but listed several of my clients as "linked."
I explained the situation and asked why they thought this. They are all separate individuals with their own accounts and verified financial accounts. However Upwork still tried to demand copies of driver licenses and bank statements to "prove" these were individuals.
This is an absolute violation of privacy and completely unreasonable not to mention unnecessary. I will have to find a new site for myself and my many clients to use.

In today time up-work is one of the best platform for the beginners and for the experienced as well, when you are doing business on up-work you don't have need of any job even you can be a entrepreneur by making numbers of clients.

They suspended me for sending too many proposal when in real life situations that's like sending many CV to many potential clients. What sort of people would suspend you for actually trying to find a successful contact for you to start work? What a horrible site. Turns out I'm not the only one who had problem with the site. To summaries my experience with UPWORK.com they are not helpful at all. Not helpful to those who are genuinely looking for freelance work. Giving them 1 star isn't even worth it. They deserve no star.

I am a full stack web developer and UX/UI designer. I started serving in Upwork and it really helps me to expose my design and technical skills throughout the world. Its really wonderful to work and experience with people around the globe and help them solve various problems. I also realized that it is challenging but worth it.

Upwork is a platform for professionals not rookies, for people who want to grow with big businesses not who are looking for a second job as a hobby. I met very professional and well paid projects from New York to Australia and some of the employers became my best friends and colleagues now.
Thanks Upwork for this opportunity.

Upwork gives you a reliable, secured and free world to work. If you want to improve yourself, learn new things to do the jobs or earn money by your skills, Upwork is the place you need. Easy to reach jovs/clients, clear job descriptions, reliable clients and trusted website. You are sure while offering a proposal, accepting an offer, doing the job or with payments. Upwork has thought everything for you!

So you find a freelancer that might fit the bill, you cannot direct message them without an upgraded account. You can "Invite" them which means you have to post a job to all freelancers, not just to the person you are interested in. In order to direct message the freelancer, I had to use the Hire option but I still don't really know if I want to hire this person since we haven't even exchanged even one msg. Goofy system (by design).

There is just one thing need to be fix we spend money to buy connects, now we are facing difficulty when we have to apply on any job for 6 or 4 connects. Only this thing has to be fixed. 2 connect are best to apply on any job.
One more thing some clients are interviewing a lot of freelancers but sometimes they just don't reply many of their freelancers. There must be apply some rules on clients as well.

So Far I've been on Upwork for a month and I've had about 5 gigs come my way. Once I figured out how to best present my work on the platform and approach clients. I got several projects. I think the best thing about the platform as a freelancer is the safety net of having a third party secure the funds and payment from prospective clients. So far it's been a good experience and I recommend the platform.