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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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Value for Talent
July 5, 2020

If you deliver quality service and you have talent, there is unlimited opportunities in Upwork. I am glad that I have joined Upwork and am thankful for the opportunities.

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
Ukraine
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I have been working here for more than 1 year, I am pleased with everything, this is the place where I started making good money. Recommend.

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
Philippines
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With upwork you can find work that suit your skills and your salary is secured. Been working with upwork for 5 years now and I can say that I have the best clients because of upwork

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
Pakistan
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It's been a while I'm working at Upwork platform and so far it was a great experience. You have to prove your worth, it's hard to get a job though unless you know your capabilities and there's an opportunity for everyone to build a successful freelance career.

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
Serbia
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I started off way back when Elance and oDesk were still a thing, they were great but something was missing and then UpWork came to be. Rarely will you see a platform skyrocket to success like UpWork did but this is well justified. From the clean design, easy to use interface and lots of must-have features to a professional community that keeps on giving, super-friendly and helpful staff and plenty to explore, UpWork has it all and thereby remains in top of my list of best freelancing platforms that a freelancer must be on. For the 4 year's I've been a Top Rated member I have met some truly amazing people to work with. It's that one site where you enjoy your profession like you're meant to and earn extra needed to help you and your family. I have only the best of recommendations for UW!

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
Nigeria
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Graphic Designer
July 5, 2020

For months I've been finding the perfect place to sell my skill to the global market and I found the right one "Upwork"

Within Two Months, I have grown to love the platform. It's Interface is functional and aesthetics are beautiful. I would recommend Upwork to as many legit Freelancer here in Nigeria, Africa.

Thank you

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
Singapore
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I found some of the best clients in this market place. I think the fee of 20% at the beginning fo the contract is a bit too much but after $500 it becomes 10% which I think ok as they provide one of the best technique to guarantee freelancers money. I never felt that I may not get paid in Upwork. Also, I am not a fan new bidding system I think it make it hard for a new freelancer to join Upwork. Otherwise, I think Upwork is the best freelancing platform out there especially for long term jobs and they have the best environment for the freelancer who knows what they're doing.

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
Ukraine
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Thanks to Upwork for opportunity of safety and interesting job. It helps me to find interesting photo editing projects

Date of experience: July 4, 2020
India
2 reviews
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Upwork makes
July 4, 2020

Upwork making Skilled professionals more skillful and also helping to make some extra buck by helping needy clients. Its the best thing happened to me so far. Its really easy to apply for opportunities, completing the contracts and getting payments. Good Job Upwork.

Date of experience: July 3, 2020
India
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Upwork is really great platform to earn with your quality work.
But there is too much crowd you should have to spend many connections to get a job.

Date of experience: July 2, 2020
Sri Lanka
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Up work get lot of money from freelancers from the connects + the 20% of the order which not fair at all. If they can give free connects it'll be worth it.

Date of experience: July 2, 2020
New Zealand
2 reviews
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I have been a part-time freelancer for over a decade and Upwork is the only platform where I have managed to find trustworthy and long-term clients that have quality work as well. Upwork's fees are quite high and while that could be discouraging in the beginning, I would urge a newbie to stick it through the initial period to reap the rewards later. If you're talented, you will soon get solid responses from clients. I've had to turn down offers at points because I couldn't manage the workload. Thank you Upwork for a great platform. I would love it if they charged a smaller premium fee but for the opportunities we are getting, I guess that's a price worth paying.

Date of experience: July 2, 2020
India
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Logo design
July 3, 2020

I have done many logos work here and i love to work over here with clients and i recomanded this platform to others.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
Australia
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This platform is unique in it's own way, It will change your way of working as soon as you realise that the more effort you put in, the more you get from it and it is optimized to meet you with long term clients which is very useful if you are trying to make it a full time job. I am still amazed of the possibility connecting with clients from different part of the world and how you can be useful for them. Thank you Upwork.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
India
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Superb experience! 5 years on Upwork and it's been Totally worth it with many great opportunities...
Thank you, Team Upwork

https://www.upwork.com/fl/laxmibhatt

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
India
1 review
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I am glad that I earned a lot of projects with active clients on Upwork. Upwork is good for finding and working with long term clients, be genuine with them and you can earn a handsome amount.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
Pakistan
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Landing page job
July 1, 2020

I have awesome experience on upwork, i got $100 order for creating an landing page and client send me $20 extra bonus.

Thanks upwork for awesome platform.

Date of experience: June 30, 2020
Morocco
1 review
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I have subscribed on Upwork in 2017, but I haven't got any job, and my account has been disabled due to my failing to get any project because I didn't have any experience in my field, I had forgotten about work as a freelancer. And after 3 years until now at the beginning of the current situation, I come back with good experience in my field, so I contacted the Upwork support and I followed the instructions to get my account activated again. After that in about a month, I have submitted a lot of proposal without getting hired, until I got my first 5$ project, and from this point, my successful story starts with Upwork and in about a month or less I achieved more than 1k $, I am only work in part-time in Upwork, indeed I am preparing to make Upwork my full-time work. I have worked on other freelance platforms but Upwork is the best because on Upwork you get what you deserve due to the review system, but on other platforms, you can work and get nothing.

Date of experience: June 30, 2020
India
1 review
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Well, how should I start... i am so much happy now due to ability to work from anywhere. As i was not at all happy while working in city, but upwork allowed me to get 3times more salary than i was getting in company with 100times less stress. So now i enjoy my work, and can command good money for my service. Thankyou Upwork!

Date of experience: June 30, 2020
Egypt
1 review
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Superb experience! Six years on Upwork and it's been totally worth it with many great opportunities.

Date of experience: June 30, 2020

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