Freelancer.com vs. YouTeam

Freelancer is the best when it comes to running a small agency and getting as many jobs as you can, and gathering international experience and reviews. It is also quite good for earning small, extra money on the side when you have additional free time for doing smaller time-scoped projects.

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Without hesitation, we can recommend this program, as it has allowed us to have the best remote staff we have had in the company. YouTeam always responded to any eventuality that may arise and was always attentive to our requirements and demands.

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• Freelancer.com gives you a way to hire freelancers within minutes.
• It offers you secure payments using their milestone payments, which make you safe as a freelancer or employer.
• Their support service is great, easy to use and simple to use! Your problems can get solved in seconds.

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• It has very efficient consultants who ask the perfect questions so that the shortlisting of candidates is exactly what we are looking for. I also like that the whole process is done in a maximum of one week. That is, we already have the qualified personnel hired and working in one week.
• The program gives us in a short time a list of all the candidates, with all the information we need about them, so that we can choose the ones we want to interview.
• It has a large database of expert engineers in different areas such as big data, web development, applications, and more, so we have benefited from the expert staff they have offered us.

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• Complex interface: tracking your freelancer's work status is harder than it should be. Tracking sometimes does not work as it should.
• Mobile app is laggy and sometimes glitchy so personally I prefer to use the web-based platform (inconvenient for someone who is traveling on business trips a lot).
• It is hard to find quality talent for simple tasks (translation). It is easy to find talent for technical tasks though (iOS app developers for example).

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• We had drawbacks with some of the selected people, but the YouTeam team quickly helped us with the drawback by providing a new list.
• In the introductory interview, they overlooked to ask the location; that's why the list they sent was of candidates who did not have the same time zone, making remote work more complicated.
• Although they guarantee that those hired will stay for an average of 2 years, the truth is that we lost a good employee in less than that time.

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Of the freelance hubs I am listed on, more than a few, I haven't been as successful on Freelancer.com. Freelancer.com, I think, could use some more development and better customer service. It does separate itself with its competency tests, but I'm not sure this is enough. Still, I check out the project lists from time to time and keep my profile up to date, just in case

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• Saving money by working with cheaper freelancers than others.
• Not having full-time employees because sometimes I have less work to provide.
• Find skilled freelancers easily without wasting time.

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• The investment is worth it, taking into account that the program is very fast and allows us to save a lot of time; in a few days, we already have, in our ranks, expert developers working for us, increasing our productivity and our profits.

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