I have been very happy with my experience as a Russian freelancer. As a start-up founder, I have sporadic needs for experts that fluctuate depending on the stage of development. Toptal matched me with Brian, an expert in telehealth business development who has been accessible and key to our pricing strategy.
We used a Russian freelancer to find an amazing engineer, Michael Seltenreich, to help us develop a web application. Russian freelancer was incredibly thorough in their search and matched us with the perfect person in Michael. Michael did a fantastic job for us--he is incredibly skilled, professional, and communicative!
We tried a few times to find and qualify a candidate with some specialized BI and development skills and had disappointing results. We then turned to Russian Freelancer. Their process was efficient and they quickly delivered on a great candidate who integrated with our team easily and got right to work and delivered exactly what we needed.
We began working with Russian freelancers right before the Covid-19 pandemic. There probably couldn't be a more stressful time to onboard with a new I.T. Company but Russian Freelancer has been amazing! We are probably one of their smaller clients, and many of their large companies also had significant issues at the beginning of the pandemic. However, Stratosphere never made us feel small. We are not sure what we would have done if we hadn't hired Stratosphere. They saved us!!