Upwork Reviews & Insights

I am using Upwork for the last 4 years to hunt Marketing, Development and BPO projects for my company. Upwork is the platform on which if you follow the growth patterns you can easily get the warm leads for your niche. My experience throughout this tenure has been very pleasant and I would recommend Upwork to freelancer who are looking to work independent with diverse clients around the globe.

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I use Upwork to find freelance job offerings that I can do in my free time, such as technical writing jobs. The platform is great to find jobs that match exactly my particular skills. And there's plenty of job offerings. Search filter also help a lot to refine complex searches.

Upwork offers plenty of tools to help freelancers create good profiles for themselves.
I think it is a little hard to get your first job when you just start on Upwork.
Upwork offers the freelancer to boost their proposals to increase the possibility of getting noticed by the employer, but it is not a good thing. In my opinion, many times it is a waste of money for the freelancer.

Well, it is the best Freelancing platform in the world for a reason. I have been working on UpWork since 2012 and it has been fantastic. Our agency also uses it get most qualified leads from.

UpWork has everything:
- For an Agency: It gives a way to manage the teams, their finances, the work, client and freelancer communication etc.

- For a Freelancer: It goes even beyond that. As with UpWork someone can start earning from Day one with a very minimal investment.

Best Suited: For Agencies and Freelancers who find it difficult to get good quality leads and clients for their Online based services. It is quite easy for them to find jobs, apply on them and then start working.

Less suited: It is less suited for someone who has a very very low budget and don't want to work hard to get leads from.

I used Upwork to hire a freelancer to help us get back a hacked and deleted facebook account. We were unfortunately decieved by the freelancer who did absolutely no work and had made us pay in advance. We naturally had the Upwork Customer service involved, but we got no help whatsoever in the dispute, even though complete evidence were presented of the fraud. In my opinion it is very sad that Upwork permit scams on their site. They also removed the review I wrote about the freelancer. Please be careful everyone...

Maybe you can get lucky and find honest freelancers here? Unfortunately, in my opinion, as long as Upwork lets scammers work on their site, they ruin it for all the honest freelancers out there... In my experience, we were tricked and scammed by a freelancer there and got no support at all from Upwork Customer Support.

We use Upwork when we have short, randomly-occurring tasks that we need completed and it's not worth hiring a permanent staffer. For instance, when we need seasonal customer outreach calls made, or if we need some graphic design work done for some marketing material.

It's great for easy, very, very well defined tasks. When it comes to more complicated tasks, Upwork can be used, but per prepared to spend a lot of time and energy working to guide the Upwork freelancer.

Our company utilizes Upwork for our workflow shortages, and for short/long-term projects different departments may need assistance with. Upwork allows us to find candidates for different project lengths and commitments while also boosting efficiency in our workflow and roadmap. We have utilized Upwork for basic data entry needs, and for interim product owners and scrum masters while looking for more permanent replacements.

I would recommend Upwork to a colleague as a solution to workplace issues. Our company has utilized Upwork to vet out potential competitors as well as partners in a lengthy data analysis project, as well as given our engineering team extra hands when implementing new products, projects, and features. This has allowed our company to stay on track with projects without in-house manpower.

I use Upwork specifically to find freelance projects. I am a sole proprietor and therefore the only one in my organization who uses it.

It is a great way to be matched up with projects that specifically align with my skills. It really helps me find clients in my particular niche, whom I would not necessarily found on my own or vice versa. It's not appropriate for full-time or salaried part-time work.

We hire contractors from all over the world to do some simple tasks for us. It provides a flexible workforce that without having the burden of starting with a lot of upfront expenditure. Since we are an AI company we use it for data annotation mainly. We can hire as much talent as we want for as much time as we want, and we don't worry if they are going to be able to get paid or not. Upwork always makes them get paid anywhere in the world.

It's an all-in-one platform: talent market place, talent tracking, and easy payment system.

We used Upwork as part of our customer acquisition channel.

We were a top-rated agency in Upwork, with thousands of hours recorded and millions of dollars billed. Upwork blocked our accounts without providing a reason why other than a violation of their terms of services. We asked for details, and they never provided one. Interacting with their customer service was a nightmare. We presented all the information requested; we received a ton of support from our customers, and they not only didn’t provide a reason, but they froze all the money we had in their escrow account. After weeks of back and forth and still, without providing a reason for the closure of our account, they contacted all our customers and suggested that they would help them to pass our projects to other freelancers in their network. They tried to harm our business regardless of the many engineers whose only support is the work they do for our customers. We decided to move our operations to other marketplaces like Guru, Freelancer.com, etc. In my opinion, Upwork is only after the money they can make through the freelance community and don’t have our best interest in mind.

Because of Upwork, we are able to create a higher number of blog posts and have a copy for ads as well as graphics to use for social media and Google ads at scale. Working with several professionals allows us to prioritize the marketing tasks over the content creation tasks and the people we work with offer an affordable rate.

Upwork allows our team to easily find professional designers, editors, and copy writers for projects that we need a quick turnaround time on. Rather than sifting through resumes or seeking out individual people online, Upwork makes it easy to search for what you need, set up projects for professionals to apply for, and review their work in a time-saving and effective way. We have been using Upwork for several years now and have worked with data entry specialists, video editors, copywriters, and more. Upwork makes the process of finding a digital creator to work with an easy one.