Overall Satisfaction with Upwork
We've been using Upwork to prospect new clients and offer our services abroad. It helps us expand to another markets in North America and Europe.
- It has a lot of job opportunities (single projects)
- Great amount of companies searching for developers and designers
- The search tool is awesome, offering tools and filters to display exactly what you are looking for
- They could offer better pricing for small companies
- Change the way they handle company accounts (who are offering services), it's somewhat confusing
- Since there are so many developers, they could better distinguish job offerings from individuals to companies
- They charge a huge amount (around 20%) of every payment, besides Paypal's taxes.
- But, it enables us to reach a huge amount of new clients with a monthly payment.
- It's been somewhat difficult to get new jobs, since we're a company and we compete with individuals who have much cheaper prices.
I've never used similar products to Upwork, so I can't compare it to others, but I know they can improve on services from a company (looking for jobs) perspective.