Declining Company Culture and Outlook - Anonymous employee Upwork Employee Review

2.0
5 Mar 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Still hiring in a few teams. Good place to come to get hired at a VP level position and then leave in a couple years (frequent observed pattern.)

Cons

Leadership team worships startup culture (build and break fearlessly), but we are carrying the weight of 15+ years technical debt created by frequent changes in product direction and business model of globally distributed engineering free lancers (good people, just hard to pull off). High turnover in executives. Not many "new products" have added to the bottom line in recent years...declining GSV and Revenue.

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