Good for part-time - Anonymous employee Toptal Employee Review

4.0
Apr 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can set your own rates, access to a lot of clients, payments made easy. Very nice for part-time work!

Cons

Have to keep looking for contracts, no benefits, hard to achieve salary of a full-time U.S. based programmer.

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Toptal Response
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Toptal was designed to give developers around the world the freedom to live the life they want doing the work they love. We actually do have many extremely successful full-time, US-based members of our network. We recommend you check in with the engineers on our matching team to get some best practices for making Toptal more successful for you.

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