Does Freelancer pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Freelancer employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Freelancer. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Freelancer?

86% of Freelancer employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Freelancer 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Freelancer?

Freelancer (1358) , Graphic Designer (749) , Software Engineer (511) , Software Developer (326) , Content Writer (312) , Web Developer (296) , Designer (220) , Freelance Writer (209) , Front End Developer (160) , Video Editor (150) , Data Entry (142) , Consultant (139) , Photographer (132) , Freelance Graphic Designer (121) , Project Manager (118)

What are the pros of working at Freelancer according to real employee reviews?

"work from home and flexible" ((in 330 reviews)); "It's great to have flexible hours and actual control of the projects you take part in." ((in 308 reviews)); "Lots mobility and creative freedom" ((in 209 reviews)); "Good work life balance and you can plan ur time" ((in 181 reviews)); "flexible and good money if you have a right network" ((in 136 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Freelancer according to real employee reviews?

"It is not stable and low salary" ((in 361 reviews)); "No Benefits: Freelancers do not typically receive benefits like health insurance or retirement plans." ((in 227 reviews)); "low pay and difficult to find work" ((in 224 reviews)); "No job security and stability" ((in 148 reviews)); "Time management: Freelancers need to manage their own time and may struggle with balancing multiple projects and deadlines." ((in 74 reviews))

What are the top reviewed Freelancer locations?

Berlin , München , Hamburg , Köln , Frankfurt am Main , Düsseldorf , Bonn , Karlsruhe , Leipzig , Stuttgart , Duisburg , Regensburg , Kiel , Stade , Bremen , Göttingen , Weingarten , Mainburg , Öhringen , Freiburg , Augsburg , Dresden , Buxtehude , Merzig , Saarbrücken , Walldorf , Cottbus , Brühl , Mechernich , Mettmann

Freelancer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(8,448 total reviews)

Matt Barrie

91% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

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 Personalwesen industry (3.8 stars).

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8K reviews

1.0

Oct 23, 2014

If you have ANY other options, don't accept any offer from Freelancer.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Business Outlook

Pros

Honestly, I can't think of one. But seeing as I have to write 20 words I suppose that some of the people were ok.

Cons

This list is too long to fit in here. In a nutshell, this is the most disorganised, fearful, hopeless, witless, frustrating company that I've ever seen the inside of. Somebody was fired or left ever second day, seriously. The turnover of staff was shocking. These clowns seem to think that they're actually of a high standard in their product and their methodology. All I can say is that they must be completely ignorant, as well as disorganised, to think that way. If you have no other options, then ok, fine, consider joining. But if you're of any ability and can work somewhere else, do so. Also, please note that the reason that the rating of this company is so high in here is because actually Freelancers (i.e: people who work in the platform rather than with the company) are writing reviews. All of the actual employees of Freelancer have left similar reviews to this one.

1.0

Jul 27, 2015

Negative/Non-Existant Engineering Culture

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Good office location - Small teams

Cons

- No focus on quality engineering - No focus on building a great product, only on finding new ways to suck money out of the users - Slowly outsourcing all engineers to Manilla - Terrible pay - No stock for employees

1.0

Dec 13, 2017

It's a mafia led by the CEO and his fellows

Anonymous employee

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CEO approval

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Pros

- as an engineer you learn the latest tech trends but you don't get to apply them - few smart people in the office

Cons

- Very low salary, no formal appraisal or bonuses process except for selected people without any formal basis - The worst company culture I have ever seen, a lot of internal office politics, conversations behind closed doors, and people talking about each other behind their backs - no work/life balance, they expect you to work for very long hours without any compensation - senior management is very corrupt and incompetent, one of the managers is a pathological liar, he tells lies just to cover his back even if that means he has to hurt other people - culture and values? no ethics whatsoever, the CEO's only value is "more money" and he does not care about anything except increasing his wealth, this mentality is projected over everyone else in the company as they just think about themselves and how to survive in this "jungle" where strong attacks the weak - the HR team is a joke, they are useless, they turn a blind eye to all the bad things happening in the company, they think a good culture is about providing pizza or some drinks to the employees, they are part of this corrupt system and they don't care about anything happening

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