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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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Joining upwork creating opportunities for me, who came from Southeast Asia to work with International employer, earning dollars that converted to have better value here.

Date of experience: December 6, 2020
Bangladesh
1 review
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Best online Marketplace
December 7, 2020

I have been working with upwork more than 7 years. I believe this is the best online marketplace now a days. You can find out long term or short term contract from here. I have completed *******+ hours successfully in upwork. I believe this is just beginning for me. Thanks upwork for supporting us and to create a fantastic platform.

Date of experience: December 6, 2020
Pakistan
1 review
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Quality platform
December 7, 2020

Upwork is Great for buyers, great for sellers other than any freelancing platform. Therefore strongly recommend.

Date of experience: December 6, 2020
Philippines
1 review
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Best Online Job Platform
December 7, 2020

Easy to use in searching for online jobs. Very safe and freelancer friendly. If you want to look for jobs definitely give it a try.

Date of experience: December 6, 2020
Philippines
1 review
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Nice
December 7, 2020

Good platform in making sure your getting the best clients possible and always make sure payments are secured

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
Bangladesh
1 review
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Upwork is the best platform for freelancers. I started my online career with Upwork and It is a great experience to work with Upwork. In this pandemic Upwork really help me to earn money. Thanks Upwork for give me the opportunity.

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
Pakistan
1 review
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I have been working on upwork for over 2 years and it has been remarkable. I recommend upwork to everyone who wants to share his experience and skills to earn and to help people all across the globe.

Date of experience: December 4, 2020
Philippines
1 review
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Upwork amazing
December 4, 2020

When I start working upwork i felt difficult because of limited connects. And after I buy the connects Easy to find job, and hopefully the upwork give free connects to all freelancer so that we will work easy and to find client and we will income both sides.

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
California
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I am sure that thousands of people have been sending positive thoughts to this website's creators for all the possibilities they granted to their users! Thank you!

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
Nepal
1 review
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Really enjoying it
December 4, 2020

I am really enjoying working with different clients at this platform.It gives you a number of opportunities to present your skills and portfolio to clients and get work remote work. I will highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make a career as a freelancer.

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
Ghana
1 review
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Great Experience
December 4, 2020

Upwork is the best freelancing platform. Credible, organised and profitable. I'm glad to be here...

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
Italy
1 review
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Upwork is a well-designed and well-functioning platform for freelancers and agencies to make a career. It gives you a number of opportunities to present your skills and portfolio to clients and get work remote work. I will highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make a career as a freelancer.

Date of experience: December 3, 2020
RU
1 review
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Upwork help me rise up my communication and creativity skills
Also i meet with a lot of interesting peoples from all World.
Well in finaly Upwork its a great opportuinity to earn money

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
Singapore
1 review
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I've been working on Upwork since Elance & Odesk first merger in 2014, and it's a great start for my service business. I got plenty of invitations for various work until I can't handle it anymore. But beware, there are many fraud clients trying to charge for free work, even scam. I hope Upwork will handle this, and keep the community grows.

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
India
1 review
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One of the best freelancing platform to earn/learn/make business and many more.
I have been working on Upwork since 2019

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
Philippines
1 review
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So many different opportunities to choose from. Hope I can land my first job soon. I always wanted to work remotely where you are your own boss do any thing any time you want. I think Upwork is the best platform for us people who are dreaming to become a freelancer to have endless opportunities for income and experience.

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
Montana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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While it did take time to establish myself on Upwork (almost a year), I find it to be a solid freelancer site with plenty of opportunity. It has nice features like payment protection through Escrow, Talent Specialist coaching, and the time tracker tool.

An area for improvement is the steep service fee (20% for the first $500 per client, 10% thereafter). I think fees for this service should be in the 7-8% range, especially with the financial toll of the pandemic hitting hard this year.

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
North Macedonia
1 review
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The best for freelancers
December 2, 2020

Upwork is the best option for freelancers so far. They provide payment security for your hard work, have the best clients out there.

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
Slovakia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Great platform
December 2, 2020

Upwork is a great platform. I have tried some more platforms with similar business model, but their system of bidding was too complicated and you have to wait until bidding was finished, so it was absolutely unproductive from time point of view. In Upwork, I can get to an agreement with the client within minutes. My only displeasure with Upwork concerns pricing. 20 % provision seem to me a little bit steep.

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
Nigeria
1 review
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Amazing platform
December 2, 2020

Upwork is doing such amazing work at creating opportunities for people like myself to be able to work with anyone, anywhere. It's great to not be limited to your environment or country when it comes to rendering your skills as a service, and Upwork affords that in a great way with a great platform and structure. People who are committed to working their way up will always end up increasing their yearly earnings via the platform.

Date of experience: December 1, 2020

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