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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 am very happy with upwork and how it has brought me more opportunities of working with various brands/companies/and clients that are very good. It also assures me of my weekly salaries smoothly
Upwork is a great place to start a career for young people. I am a young architect and 3d artist, after graduating from college I started working in an architectural firm, at some point I tried Freelance through the Upwork platform, and with a little luck and good skills for the first month, I earned about 1 000 $, since then I transferred my entire career and development path in business to Upwork. I think that this platform is very useful for young people who want to gain experience, skills, and money, especially in a smaller country such as Serbia. Most countries in Europe, America, Asia have a higher standard of living, so living in Serbia with a foreign salary is very comfortable.
Good pay for each minute spent, excellent learning platform, great work life balance, a good option to start a second career after a break, many career options to choose from.
Great - Love the ability to connect to clients seeking remote services
Not So Good - Lots of spam listings and the rating system is VERY skewed against the freelancer.
If you are willing to work hard at UpWorks system- then it can be a great tool. Worth the time, but frustrating and needs serious improvement.
The interface is such a smooth experience.
Whole website is designed to make it easy for the freelancers to get projects.
Fair way in handling money related issues.
Great place to find all kinds of works.
Upwork is a platform where you can earn extra money or find permanent job position. Basically, you don't gave to worry about Upwork reliability, keep searching and you will earn good money if you are good at your field of services that you can provide.
Upwork is one of the best platform to use and polish your skill with making money side by side.
Before starting as freelancer carrier, I was not good in neither verbal and written English communication nor good in speaking and listening.
Upwork provide platform to interact with clients from different regions to polish my work skills.
I highly recommend this platform to grow financially and skill wise as well.
I find Upwork provides quite an exclusive platform for freelancers to establish themselves in providing a host of services to clients who post mostly relevant and qualitative jobs. The tools developed by Upwork to keep a control on entry of freelancers and allowing only credible ones to join is helping the platform earn a reputation of quality delivery. The practice of awarding badges related to milestones also help the freelancers in creating a differential and a niche for themselves, which further strengthens there efforts for more contracts. All in all the platform stands out amid a rather crowded market place for such freelancing work.
Recommended to all freelancers. Just their commissions needs to be lowered. Payments hourly are under guarantee of Upwork.
Upwork is a great place to source for professionals. As a lawyer, Upwork avails a platform to serve a global pool of clients who have the opportunity to review my services. They also have an escrow protection for both the clients and the freelancers. You may reach out to me by a simple google search of: Opiyo Ochieng Upwork profile.
Thank you Upwork for the platform.
Am happy I found upwork freelancing platform on time. I tried other freelancing sites that was recommended to me by my friends but they didn't just meet my needs in a freelancing platform.
Today I have earned thousands of dollars working as a mobile developer all thanks to upwork
I'm new at Upwork but I have had a lot of opportunities to show my talent. I know my bussiness will grow in the future with my Upwork account.
Upwork is very helpful for freelancers to provide service in many categories to clients all around the world.
I could recognize new creative solutions when I work for multiple clients from different nations, also it's a great opportunity to improve individual talents.
UPWORK made a big change to our working lives, it made life easy bcoz of work from home. KUDOS UPWORK!
I have a lot to thank Upwork for. The platform gave me a great foundation to start my business. I still use the platform to receive project requests, some of which are irrelevant, some of which are exciting, and a lot in the middle.
I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone, but it certainly worked for me. After one year, I now rank as one of the most reputable freelancers in my industry.
I have used this site for years. I find these guys dishonest and I do not feel secure on there site in anyway
In fact they are dishonest and unethical
Do NOT use them!
This could sound dramatic but it's the truth. Finding Upwork changed my life in the best way. I started offering my services on their website and quickly found enough GOOD clients that I was able to quit my job and become a full-time freelancer. I moved to the Caribbean and am currently enjoying the best life thanks to this. In Upwork, you can find serious clients that pay fair prices and value your time and work as a freelancer. I recommend this website 100%
Upwork is just amazing. I am able to get best clients on this platform. I AM REALLY HAPPY TO WORK HERE.
Upwork is an online platform where freelancers meet their clients. In a nutshell, you will be sending proposals to projects that you think are within your skills. If the client hires you, then he will send the contract, and voila. You now have work!
On Upwork i feel more relax as compared other freelancing platforms. You will find only professional and long term clients on this website. Thanks Upwork
Answer: They are horrible. Every freelancer I've gotten from Upwork has cost me more to fix the small job they have done. There's absolutely no customer service! I would stay away
Answer: This is not the place to inquire.
Answer: No, just 20% of your job when we talk about fixed price, and same for hourly but after some week it's been 10%
Answer: Go to Settings › Contact Info › Click the Close my account link. If you meet the requirements, click the button to confirm that you want to close your account.
Answer: I am a customer and have had a really horrible experience. Upwork claims a 100% guarantee before you pay anything. That is not true. The process is actually quite horrible. You put money in escrow. You only get your money back after a bad contract if the freelancer agrees to release the money. If the freelancer refuses, you get a bargain offer to still pay them something but still you are paying for a bad job you can't use. Then, if you refuse to bargain over a bad job, you are told that it will cost you an additional $389 to arbitrate with a 3rd party affiliate that the customer (me), the freelancer (scammer) and Upwork (ripoff enabler) has to pay. I took it all the way to arbitration with the end result being that Upwork decided that I was just too uninformed to know their policy and that they would give me a one time only refund of my original amount. What they didn't tell me what that they just gave me a "credit" of my original amount and that was the end. So I am still out the original amount and can't get my money back. This sight is a ripoff. Plain and simple.
Answer: Because of their policy changes which are geared towards the client rather than the freelancer. They have dug their own grave with their policy changes of late.
Answer: Go to Get Paid on PC or Mobile, you will see 3 dots in front of your payment method, tap to select edit/remove to change them. Go to Billing Method on PC under Billing Section and tap three dots to change (edit/remove). Thanks
Answer: Be part and see, dont look at the sold mine reviews people, upwork can bush you to reach.
Answer: I agree with Sam. This place is a scam. They have bad reviews everywhere. Katrina is probably working for them!
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