Upwork

Instead of a race to the bottom, up work is a race to the top with legitimate skill sets. It makes for the perfect platform to establish yourself is a rising star in you respective industry.

Don't use this website if you are smart! I shouldve read the reviews before I signed up with this company! They are a joke. Majority of people on this site posting ads are scam artist and or identity thieves! Upwork help and support team is a joke and they don't uphold anything they say in any way shape or form. This site is EXTREMELY UNETHICAL AND THEY ENABLE PEOPLE TO SCREW YOU OVER AND THEY ARE RIGHT ALONG SIDE OF THE SCAMMERS! DON'T SAY i DIDN'T WARN YOU... GUARANTEED YOU'LL BE HERE WRITING A REVIEW LIKE THIS.

I am a freelancer and doing a job on multiple online platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, I heard from someone that Upwork is a very good platform for online work then I tried Upwork for an online job and then I have got my first job within 1 week and Upwork is a very professional for an online job.

Upwork is a best platform to show your skills and learn and develop experience with genuine clients. It gives an experience to explore our knowledge and improving our skills.

I have found Upwork the most authentic and great platform. This platform is full of amazing opportunities and I am glad to be a part of the Upwork family.

I like him too because I worked with him. Such a great and honest freelancer.I impressed him. This person did my work on time.i will like work with him whole life

Upwork is a great freelancing platform. I have found genuine clients and have been working in this platform without any problems. I highly recommend this platform for freelancing.

After months being ghosted, time and time again by the programmer that I hired to do the
Job, I have absolutely nothing whatsoever to show for it. I am out $1060. That, BTW, is
Above my budget for the work. The programmer spent months dropping out contact (ghosting
Me). He talked a good a game, promised to make Filemaker & Wordpress do everything I could
Want.

Over the months since job inception, he would disappear, for lengths of time, running out
The clock on Upwork's "terms of service". Excuses ranged from, "I lost my mobile
Number", "I lost my phone", "I got Covid", all of which ran out TOS. His phone number
Changed twice. After weeks of silence, he responded, and told me that all was ready, that
He would call me back the next morning and show off the work. I called him, the call
Dropped, and after a month of silence there (I was calling and sending messages), I
Realized I got scammed.

With a professional way to bid a project and the freelancer and the customer will be able to discuss about the project before deciding if they want to work together.

I find this intriguing to say the least! I closed my account within one hour simply because of a typo. Yes, thats righta typo.
You see, when you begin the sign up process with Upwork, if you make a mistake on your real name, you cant go back that one step and fix it, as you are caught in a loop of the process. I didnt think much of it, figuring that I could always go back and edit my typo in my nameI typed Micahel, reversing the a and the h.
Guess what? Couldnt be done! I searched and searched and tried to find a customer service CONTACT form or emailno such luck. So after spending a ridiculous amount of time that on any other LEGIT site (like freelancer) would have taken 30 seconds, I decided that if they cant provide me with a contact method, I dont need them, because what if I have issues with a client?
After reading ALL the MASSIVE number of complaints here, I know I made the RIGHT decision.

I have been on the platform for less than a month and it has saved me financially! Due to COVID-19 my business suffered but now it's been better than ever.

I feel Upwork is one of the best platform for freelancers. Payment is secured. The customer service department of Upwork is unparalleled. Brilliant CS.

Upwork is the best online professionals platform where you can get anything done virtually. I work as a web developer and I have been able to work with the best clients throughout the world.

Upwork is my goto website to find new work.
Talk to clients and work on some amazing projects.

It helps me send direct contracts to external clients too.
Everything is so very well organised.

I have been a freelance writer on Upwork for over 4 years now and have honestly been very lucky. Within the first month of looking on the platform (back in 2016, much has changed since then), I found a steady client to work with and the work helped me support my medical recovery at the time. Now, I'm able to work from anywhere in the world and work with clients from all over the world!

There are obviously downsides to every platform (particularly concerning % fees), and you have to be smart about what clients you accept and to vet projects the best you can. I've had a few unpleasant clients, but I have always chosen to have their best interest in mind, including if the project should come to a close.

I've enjoyed the perks of my hard labor (and over 37 jobs over the past 4 years), as now I've been able to hold my status as a top-rated freelancer for a long time. With that status, great clients find me and I rarely have to use connects for a new job proposal.

I personally think the key to success on this platform is to trust your gut on whether a client is a good fit for you. I've been asked to join projects that just didn't feel right, and those were always the ones that didn't go well. Upwork is great as a platform if you're building up your portfolio, or looking for a way to work from home. I continue to recommend it to friends, and they've also been successful on the platform!

If you are a freelancer and have two goals: build up your resume and/or your portfolio and you would like to make money doing so - Do NOT use Upwork.com. You can do better elsewhere.

I am in upwork 1-2 year, but have only good experience,
If you keep their privacy and terms of use and do a good job for clients,
You will always have great clients there.

I have done quite a bit of work through Upwork and the one thing that rings true through all of my work is the lack of pay. I was writing for one online paper and earning only $1.50 per 400 word article. I took the job only for the by-line. I kept my work, and that was very important to me. The major drawback was the amount of time I spent researching the articles I was writing. I would spend 3/4 of my day doing research for between 2 and 4 articles each day.
I have since been asked to do many, MANY jobs that pay less than $1 per 100 words. I am not going to spend my precious time researching an article to make that amount of money. Being a writer is something that is part of who we are. It is an art and we should be paid accordingly.
I will also say that the number of scam artists on this site is staggering! I have been approached by a group trying to get my bank information at least 8 times in 6 months. You have to be so careful with these people, it is really easy to get fooled. And, the first time I got scammed, Upwork suspended MY account because they said I didn't perform the job correctly! I do not like having to research each job because the scammers are so prevalent. All I can say, honestly, is do your research, get what you are worth! Don't take a job just because you will get the by-line, I learned my lesson on that one.

It's a good place to work, an individual can work on as per their choice, skills and for the Projects. I felt that I am the owner of my own work and have my great work-life balance.

Very very good platform for freelancers. I have started working on Upwork from February 2021 and I get some orders on Upwork and I started earning on it. Best services.

Upwork it the worst platform I have every hired anyone over. My freelancer was cancelled/terminated on the Upwork platform and I was notified after. I spend over $4,110 with this freelancer and now that Upwork terminated him with no notice to be prior, he was not responding to me SO NONE OF MY WORK WAS HANDED OVER to me that I had been paying him a per-hourly rate for. I have been back and forth with upwork and they tell me this is not their responsibility. I told them that since he was hourly paid, he had all the work with him and it needs to be given to me or I want to be refunded by them. Fat chance of that. They also delete all my comments on INSTAGRAM and and BLOCKED my instagram account as they don't want anyone knowing how they operate. Funny, as the comments clients/freelancers write about each other cannot be edited due to the 'honest review' policy. But this doesn't apply to reviews on their own platform in regards to Upwork.

Upwork changed my life. I love it.
Get your clients and show them the expertise skillset. You can work from anywhere. Great place to work and explore and make your career as a freelancer

Paid a so called electronics engineer to design a PCB only to find it didn't work after getting a quantity made up lost thousands
But the freelancer is still working via upwork
Perhaps it should be called upscam