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by User_424 3046 days ago
Upwork is horrible. They take on average 25% of your pay, on top of taxes. Bad customer support and its flooded with low-cost labor.
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Ya, I end up declining 99% of all offers on up work. I'd say very few are actually good projects with good people behind them. Most are assholes who treat freelancers like garbage.
Honestly it literally sounds like that is the business model.

"Let's build a platform that exploits desperate developers..."