Upwork

I started to work on the Upwork 4 years ago and I'm very satisfied. 95% of clients are great. A lot of jobs posted every day for all types of skills. Upwork has a great support team available 24h for all freelancers and they are willing to help about anything. What I like the most is that I feel very secure working on Upwork. When I summarize all, Upwork is really the best platform!

I had been working on other freelancing platforms and then I came to know about upwork. I made an account, started bidding, and my experience on upwork is great. I will recommend Upwork to everyone who want to work professionally. It is a great platform where you can find professional agencies, freelancers and recruiters.
5 stars

I wanted a web designer that could DESIGN my website. Not only was his work very basic and almost child like but trying to explain to him what I wanted was extremely frustrating due to the language barrier. There was an urgency to get it done and a that will do' type of attitude. Extremely frustrating!

Upwork is a fantastic platform for clients to meet freelancers, it has a good user interface and it makes interacting with clients easy, although it would be great if upwork updated their conversion rate for dollar to other currencies, as freelancers (myself) lose money when we convert to other currencies on the platform, but overall it is a great freelancing site if not the best I have used so far

I've been working for many years in different companies, which made me realize that there was always limited numbers of clients you get to do business with, since you'r not the boss of your work and its results. Upwork gave me the oppurtunity to work with people from all over the world, letting me decide who I'm willing to work with, which gives far more better results than earlier.

Don't waste your time with this. I had 2 "pros" accept my project. The last guy quit. Said it was to hard and had other jobs coming in. I'm very disappointed in eLance. Both said they could knock it out in a few days. The first guy was working on everything I had asked him not to mess with. The second guy kept wanting more money. Then he quit... I've wasted a month with those guys.

This has to be the worst experience I have ever had with a company. I made a profile and I was it was suspended the next day. I called and ask why, they did not have an answer to my question. I've also heard stuff about this company from other people. Should of listened to them..

I used to love Upwork for my outsourcing. I referred people to it as the best freelancer marketplace. I've used it regularly for 6 years. The candidates were always higher quality than other sites.
Now that they've changed their pricing model, most applicants either decline my job so they don't have to pay for a connection, and the ones that came through are lower quality than they've ever been... maybe because the smart ones are leaving.
Also, they have an upgrade of $30 to have a talent specialist help with your job. But they limit who you can invite unless you do the upgrade. So either I have to buy the upgrade, or I'm limited to inviting 3 people which is useless. And all this specialist does is click "invite" to more people. I could've done that... it's not helpful.
I'm pretty bummed I have to find a new spot to outsource.

I don't trust this company anymore, they forfeited my 1 month salary due to their suspecting me of using auto clicker which is not true and they won't like to hear my explanation even It appears only 30 mins in my log time but they hold and forfeited all my earnings in the past weeks even It is out in the issue. This company is not trust worthy. You are not safe here

I was freelancing for 7 years and was so happy with elance, and then I was forced to start with upwork...

Horrible site, almost no decent jobs to apply, full of bugs etc... I got a feeling that all good employers simply disappeared from the cloud.

Don't use it. Let it die.

Today I woke up to find an email stating that my account was permanently banned because I have "asked to be paid or been paid " outside of upwork, which I clearly didn't do. I sent them a screen shot as evidence and the reply was still the same nasty accusation. No warning, no verifying, no consulting, just like that. Not the mention the 20% service fee I paid, upwork is the greediest and the nastiest freelance site there is.

Brilliant, supportive, helpful. Got most of my work from here and they can't help you enough! Problem with recommendations is that it would be less work for me in the future lol
But don't mind healthy competition, just can't stand it when you are bidding against people that work for $2 ph. But elance don't let that happen!

I started on Upwork as freelancer a couple of month ago.
And found that the Upwork team sa very professional and the platform is also fantastic.
As they connects with Highly professional clients and Companies.
I will would like to invite my all colleague freelancer to come on this site.
Thanks

Upwork has connected me with many great clients over my 1.5 years with them. I have recommended Upwork to both family and friends. Everything is not perfect with Upwork, but what in life really is perfect. I look forward to continue growing my contacts and business with Upwork

No notice of where the money will go after closing the account.
This kind of fraud should be told before closing the account.
Normally websites asks 2-3 times before they close the account, they even send email. But these guys knows how to steal money from accounts using IRS scam emails.

Upwork is a great company! I have been working here for many years and I am very happy! The Upwork team always protects my interests and is always ready to help! I am an artist and I found a lot of great clients on Upwork! Thank you! You are best!

I've been woth Upwork for almost 4 years now and I can say that it is the best online job platform I've tried so far. Great pay, good support and plenty varieties of line of work that you can choose from.

I consider Upwork as the best freelancing platform among many. I am grateful that due to Upwork I could explored the vast kindom of freelancing. I met some amazing clients and learnt (and still learning) many things that a freelance should know. It's not all about good experiences because as a freelancer, one may come across some bad experiences as well. So, a freelancer, as a one-man army, must take every experience into account and plan their freelancing journey accordingly.
Thanks again Upwork!

Sudeep

I received an email that my profile was set to private because I haven't landed any jobs yet. But almost all the jobs I can have requirements like 90% success rate et al, that I can't match because I haven't done prior work through upwork. Have you any idea how hard it is to land a job when everyone wants prior upwork experience? It's a catch22! And now they make my profile private unless I pay to upgrade because I haven't been able to get around that? What the hell? This is a scam!

I have been a successful freelancer on Elance with an impressive work history and rating and my profile was transferred to Upwork about two months back. I was delighted to get a brand new platform for my work expecting to raise my income and getting more quality jobs but never knew there were several surprises waiting for me. I applied for too many jobs but didn't receive a single project in a month. It's hilarious because it's always an easy cake for me to receive projects on Elance. There's really something WRONG with Upwork.

Although, elance does have a lot of fake company profiles but it's still much much better than the type of clients/companies there are on odesk (now upwork)
Please don't shut down this site.
A lot freelancers are dependant on it.
Else we would have to move to upwork where some of the clients are so cheap that hire you at $1/hr which is some serious extortion!!!

I am a Top-rated Freelancer here on Upwork. If you are a skilled, hardworking, self-motivated person who can deliver his/her best to the clients then this is the right platform for you.

So I'm highly recommending Upwork to both Freelancers and Clients

Upwork is a platform where freelancers can make their profiles and get work easily. The way that Upwork sets up a profile is phenomenal and clients can easily see the potential and the skill set of the freelancer. This makes is so easy for freelancers to find relevant work and for the clients to hire a relevant person for a job.

I would like to say that Upwork Team is doing an outstanding job!