Interesting to hear about the experience with the second contractor from Toptal. They advertise themselves as providing very high quality talent, so it's a big disappointment that it's not reality.
What was Toptal's response when you (presumably) provided feedback on your experience?
They took lots of notes and said they went back to the person who matched us. I don’t know if any action was taken.
A weird part of the experience was that I didn’t realize how many corners were cut until I was literally months into taking over the code, since I was taking on rewriting stuff chunks at a time. So my initial convo I came across as lukewarm; I just chatted with my account manager last week and was much more direct in my feedback.
Interesting to hear about the experience with the second contractor from Toptal. They advertise themselves as providing very high quality talent, so it's a big disappointment that it's not reality.
What was Toptal's response when you (presumably) provided feedback on your experience?
They took lots of notes and said they went back to the person who matched us. I don’t know if any action was taken.
A weird part of the experience was that I didn’t realize how many corners were cut until I was literally months into taking over the code, since I was taking on rewriting stuff chunks at a time. So my initial convo I came across as lukewarm; I just chatted with my account manager last week and was much more direct in my feedback.
Loved reading this. Keep writing!
Loved your graphs and writing and appreciate your candor and self-reflection! Excited to retry Wanderly 🤩