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JS Developers. The projects are short term. I only use Upwork for MVP type work. Afterwards we take everything in house. I've always strived to deal fairly on t
by scandox 10y ago
JS Developers. The projects are short term. I only use Upwork for MVP type work. Afterwards we take everything in house. I've always strived to deal fairly on the site, but I generally find the terms rather unfair to the devs.
But this disturbed me. I think possibly since they put up the fees some freelancers are ditching it and some of them are getting paid in cash for their review history.
- gspetr 10y agoHave you read this piece? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282 I've read multiple stories last year from devs trying to establish themselves on Upwork (Some I heard firsthand) and getting 0 leads even if they applied for jobs that were like 20% of their usual rate. Doesn't sound all that implausible that under these conditions people will just straight up buy or rent established Upwork accounts because you won't get any responses from clients otherwise.
- scandox 10y agoYeah I saw that article at the time, though I didn't read the comments carefully. Good reminder.