Upwork for Clients

Most of the proposals that come in are the same old AI generated spam, sent by very questionable “developers”. Buyer beware. I suspect there are fake “developers” and fake “jobs” passing money back and forth giving each other good ratings and reviews. Sometimes they get lazy and even paste the same five star review text for more than one job / developer. Stay away.

Upwork’s arbitrary enforcement of rules is both baffling and infuriating. They suspend users without warning, relying on bots to make these decisions, with no option to challenge or defend oneself. Worst of all is their appalling customer service — either you get no response or a robotic reply that solves nothing. In my case, they summarily canceled a contract with my developer, despite zero issues on my side. My developer was blocked for “changing location too often,” which, as I later learned, was due to fleeing Russian forces in Ukraine. Adding insult to injury, my client account was also temporarily suspended. It took multiple messages and persistent effort just to get a human response and have the issue resolved. For a platform that thrives on trust and collaboration, Upwork’s treatment of users is shockingly careless and unprofessional. Avoid if you value transparency and fair treatment.

I had this app to be able to chat with my hired freelancers but it always has a server issue and is unable to load conversations when you need them. They appear in the app at some random time later not when you actually need to chat. Completely useless. Uninstalled

The fees were reasonable a few years ago... not anymore. Now they charge left and right, not only clients but also to freelancers.

The app works well about 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time, there’s some issue with refreshing the chats or such. Also, it’s missing features vs the website—for instance, no “hide chat” feature means that my meaningful chats with existing contracts sometimes get pushed down by new chats from old non-hired applicants nagging me for work, and I can’t do anything about it.

This sight allows scammers to run and then makes you jump through several hoops to possibly get your money back. Depending on your case you may have to pay $380 to fight. I highly do not recommend this site. This was my first time using and I will never again use it.

These guys have understanding problem. After paying for a contract they blocked my account and couldnt even let complete the contract. The responses they give doesnt make sense and nowhere tally to the questions asked

Rakim is great to work with. This is our first month but we plan on continuing for many more. We have already seen tremendous growth

Upwork is not allowing me to pay for work that is needed before a trial I have on Monday. This could become a huge lawsuit depending on what will happen now hat I won’t have the evidence I need for my son and I . Thanks guys

I tried to start an account to hire someone for a job. I used my Google email to sign up and when I tried to verify my phone number it said my number is already in use by a different account. I don’t know who is using it or why, but there’s no way to find out, none of the Support articles help and there is no way to contact Support for help on this so I’ll just be using a different service to hire someone.