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As someone who worked on Upwork for a long time and literally owe them my career, it was great and I would do it again in a heartbeat. A long time ago I made a
by sergiotapia 6y ago
As someone who worked on Upwork for a long time and literally owe them my career, it was great and I would do it again in a heartbeat. A long time ago I made a living on that platform exclusively.
Thanks to Upwork I got to work with US clients and save enough money to migrate back home to the US with my wife and children.
By using their time tracker I was guaranteed to get paid for work, they take the doubt out of the equation. Track time and you will get paid. It was 100% a worthy trade-off for me. The results speak for themselves.
Now today I have no idea what the platform is like. I haven't worked there for in quite some time.
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- Nextgrid 6y agoPresumably you went in early when the platform was still decent. I tried it in ~2013 and again recently and it's a shit-show. There's no quality control on the demand side so you waste hours sifting through crap like unreasonably low rates or unclear/nonsense requirements, then spend ages writing a proposal just to be outbid by some Indian sweatshop because the rating system has been gamed to death and there's nothing to weed out low-quality suppliers. Maybe it's good enough if you want to compete with third-world, bottom of the barrel developers and can afford to live on that, but otherwise you'd make more money on average just working at your local fast food joint.
- sergiotapia 6y agoThat was not my experience working up until 2016. My rates at their lowest was $45/hr. Double or more towards the end.