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Upwork Reviews Summary

Upwork has a rating of 2.8 stars from 2,128 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Upwork most frequently mention customer service, credit card and job success. Upwork ranks 3rd among Freelancing sites.

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I recommend upwork to anyone. I am very happy with upwork. Our local freelancers are also happy with this platform. Thanks

Date of experience: July 4, 2021
Philippines
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Upwork has provided reliable and professional source of talent to meet my business needs. For short term and even long term requirements, I have always found amazing talents to work on my processes.

Of course this is no miracle solution. The key is meticulously reviewing and interviewing freelancers to best suit your business principles. It's the same with regular hiring. Upwork just makes it easier and faster.

Date of experience: June 30, 2021
Ukraine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Upwork is a very good website to earn money. There are some difficulties with what is high percentage, but it can be explained.

Date of experience: June 25, 2021
Pakistan
1 review
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I am amazed to work on site like Upwork. Highly Recommended. You feel safe while adding Billing Information. Thank you so much Upwork for giving such an amazing platform.

Date of experience: June 22, 2021
India
1 review
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Really very very Good experience with Upwork, Really supporting Upwork team.
I can easy to manage my business in Upwork, perfect solution by Upwork help support.

Date of experience: June 20, 2021
India
1 review
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Professinal platform for Freelancers
June 19, 2021

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.

Date of experience: June 19, 2021
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Upwork is The Best
June 18, 2021

Upwork gives a lot of opportunities especially in this trying times.
It made me to grow professionally while earning enough.

Date of experience: June 18, 2021
Bahamas
6 reviews
9 helpful votes
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So I came to Upwork again and thought I give another try in getting in. After some adjustment to my profile, I got in... I start doing some stuff like send proposals and surfing the site for jobs related to what I do as a photoshop artist. Soon or days later I found out that Upwork has a bad policies and some flaws. Apparently they will kick you out if your not making it. Like not being at the top like others. Their site has too much fees and it seems like you got to buy connects once you wasted on proposals. Its hard to find the right jobs and well who knows how long I got being there? Their project catalog is crap. Its almost like Fiverr but with just too many details. They don't have a box for additional images. It looks the site is dying. They got over 7 million members but over thousand members are on..

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Brazil
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Upwork is unevitable tool for freelancers and companies.

As Artist, I'm very grateful to God and the hardwork of the upwork team for the oportunity to know and have a good relationship with clients and studios of the world; making our routine more easy, automating contracts, fees (we can prepare automatic reports for national fees! :) ), billing and calculations. I love so much the gamefied way to manage our profiles, accumulating points long of the time.

Guys, you have notion? You're helping professionals where the national economy is having severe problems, politicals and pandemic. This is very important about everything in more poor regions...

Thanks and I hope see the community grow more! <3

Date of experience: June 15, 2021
Ukraine
1 review
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-- To freelancers

I love Upwork's terms of service. Some freelancers might think it's too uncomfortable while using it. But actually, it's to protect all works and payments there. Highly recommend Upwork to freelancers. You'd better start work on Upwork with your new clients outside. Upwork will be the trustable third party to you.

-- To Clients
There are so many competitors there, though I feel happy to race with them. Clients would meet well-skilled freelancers on Upwork and get great deliveries. And Upwork will be a responsible third party between us. Hope we'd meet together there.

--- FYI, I suggest you study the Upwork policy carefully before beginning your work there.

Date of experience: June 12, 2021
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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The reviews here just DON'T MATCH UP with other sources. See attached screenshots from the BBB (Better Business Bureau), Yelp, Consumer Affairs and The RipOff Report.

BBB - 1.11 stars out of 5
Yelp - 1 out of 5 stars
Consumer Affairs - 2.4 out of 5 stars
RipOff Report - 126 complaints
Go to these sites and do a search for Upwork.

I was with Elance and smelled slime when the merger took place. I never joined.
A few years ago the ratings for Upwork on this site were in the toilet.
On these other sites I've listed, they are STILL in the toilet.

Date of experience: June 11, 2021
District of Columbia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was scammed by a dishonest agent and paid $500 for nothing. After 2 months of waiting, the freelancer I hired finally declared that he wasn't able to deliver the work and didn't want to issue a refund. I asked for Upwork's help, and after 3 week of back and forth Upwork finally told me: Due to no agreement reached within the timeline given, the dispute and ticket is closed. You have the option to pursue the case independently outside Upwork"

This is basically called a robbery. Please all be aware that your payments are absolutely NOT protected on Upwork.

Date of experience: June 7, 2021
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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When people ask me, what do I do for living aside from my traditional work, I said ' FREELANCING' and then I mentioned Upwork... and they said WOOWWWW!... and I answered them boastfully with smile. YES! I can't compare Upwork to other sites when it comes to freelancing. It's more than a five.

Date of experience: June 5, 2021
Israel
1 review
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Working with Upwork helped me grow both my network of clients and helped me reach my long-term dream of having a successful agency, they have a huge number of clients that fits my niche and that's super awesome.

Date of experience: June 5, 2021
India
1 review
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Upwork Review
June 3, 2021

Upwork is a great platform for Client for find experienced freelancer for their business. Upwork is very user friendly

Date of experience: June 3, 2021
India
1 review
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Great Platform!
June 3, 2021

I'm working here since September 2020, from then I got very good opportunity to work with people's around the globe.
And as the pendemic hit the world, this platform has provided a great opportunity to people's like us...
Thank you.
Upwork!

Date of experience: June 3, 2021
Sri Lanka
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Upwork is good for freelancers to find clients from all over the world. There are lots of opportunities for interesting and varied work. You might have to submit quite a lot of proposals to get going but I have not had to buy any 'connects' yet. The increased service fee of 20% feels too high so I can't give 5 stars. The website is easy to use and had many useful features.

Date of experience: May 24, 2021
Sri Lanka
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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It is an amazing experience having freelance contracts with world wide clients via Upwork. This platform helps me to find highly valuable clients for my software projects, products and even for consultation services. I'm so happy to continue freelancing with Upwork and recommend for other professionals too.

Date of experience: May 23, 2021
Kenya
1 review
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Upwork is simple, Transparent, and Honest! I like it. I am freelancer in data management, I have used Upwork for over 3 years. I have enjoyed its service.

Date of experience: May 23, 2021
Egypt
1 review
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One of the best if not the best platform that connects clients and freelancers. It is a great experience and the most important thing is to keep you JSS high as a freelancer

Date of experience: May 21, 2021

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