Freelancer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(8,448 total reviews)
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Matt Barrie

91% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

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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1.0
Jul 25, 2016

Shame

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Pros

I can't really think of any reasons except like any job I am paid I guess.

Cons

I feel ashamed to work here. We are literally trained to manipulate and scam those that use the site. I have been told repeatedly to hide information in "hard to find" sections of the site in order to confuse users and promote unauthorised charges on credit cards etc. The company directors do not care in the least for the actual users of the site - they are happy to benefit while they can even though we are constantly reviewed extremely low on all tech / design sites. I am embarrassed to be here and am looking for other employment.

1.0
Apr 21, 2015
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Pros

Freelancer was a interesting place to work in. They tried their best to look after there employees, by have free lunches and free gym membership, and flexible work hours.

Cons

The only problem was that they kinda treated everyone like cattle if you couldn't produce quality work during your probation period, you'll be let go.

1.0
Jan 23, 2020
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Pros

Nice office, good snacks. The employees are very skilled at what they do.

Cons

- Too much focus on data. Your main commodity is the Freelancers, focus on them and listen to them to fix the site, rather than thinking everything is doing well because of the data. Do some user testing. - With the previous point, hire more designers. The company lost two of its best designers because there's no focus on how things work in relation to the user. - No rhyme or reason to decisions made. Every cycle focuses on too many things and it doesn't allow anyone to get anything done. - Too many meetings where emails would suffice. With that being said, useless meetings often fill up needed meeting rooms. - CEO meddles in too many things that he's not an expert in. When he does, employees are often strong-armed into following what he says and employee innovation is stifled. - HR? Hello? Are you there? - Onboarding is terrible. You learn nothing about the company and you watch an hour-long video from a keynote that the CEO gave a long time ago. - Competitors are far ahead. Freelancer advantage is liquidity, which is a lie. Claims to have 40m users, but in reality, there's about 300,000 REAL accounts and the number of posted jobs do not reflect 40m users.

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