Went downhill rapidly following merger - Director Upwork Employee Review

1.0
Jan 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Work at home Wednesday was a useful perk. Free food was particularly helpful at the Mountain View location since it's quite a drive to any restaurants (unless you wanted to eat at the Symantec cafe)

Cons

While it was still oDesk the company was great but nothing seemed to work after the merger. The politics between the former-oDeskers and former-Elancers really slowed everything down to a crawl (or even backwards).

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Pay and benefits were pretty good. Only reason I stayed.

Cons

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