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      4.1

      85% would recommend to a friend

      (8,448 total reviews)
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      Matt Barrie

      91% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      Freelancer has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 8,448 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Freelancer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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      8K reviews
      5.0
      Dec 6, 2015

      Great place with a great future

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      smart people, awesome work ethic and good perks

      Cons

      Long hours required, but environment and reasons are good for it

      2.0
      Dec 2, 2015

      It used to be good

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It was a nice place to work in a lot of ways. When I was employed there, Freelancer was a great place to launch a career. It was also a great place to learn from talented engineers and data scientists and product managers. It was also very empowering! There were only a few barriers to putting ideas into production. It also throws a great party. But please check my cons section, because very few of the pros are there any more.

      Cons

      Freelancer is slowly imploding. The management don't know how to retain talented people. When I started there were a lot of really talented people working there, but by now most have left, replaced by interns. In fact, if you are looking at an internship, remember that if you're looking to actually learn things, you want to be placed with senior engineers, not with more interns. The reason everyone leaves is simple: the company doesn't take a long term view on anything, which drives talented people crazy, so they leave. It's a stressful place to work, and it pays poorly.

      1.0
      Nov 19, 2015

      Built on pretense

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The best reasons to work at Freelancer are all gone. The best and the smartest have left.

      Cons

      The technology stack is unmaintainable. Poor architectural vision has resulted in a "distributed monolith". If you take a role here, you will not work on new or interesting technical problems. Instead you will merely inherit projects which have a huge knowledge gap as everyone that ever worked on them has now left. Your career path or goals are unimportant. Do not expect regular reviews. On the up side, hang around and eventually your superiors will quit or be fired, which may result in a "promotion". Salary is well below market/industry rates. If you're currently working at Freelancer, shop around you can easily get a 20-30% pay bump elsewhere.

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