ArcReviews of arc.dev

I am happy with Arc.dev. I had a bunch of good customers, that hired me for important deliverables. Payments always on time, full support from the Arc.dev team, no problem ever blocked us.

Got a recommendation from friend and never regretted my decision to join Arc community.

Arc is an excellent platform to work with. Support is readily available if there is any problems, money is handled on time. The process from submitting a proposal to scheduling a preliminary meeting with clients to signing the work contract is effortless.

The folks at Arc also do a great job setting expectations with both sides of the working relationship, so you find yourself in a place where clients, and potential clients, have a clear understanding of how to work with you. Through the online platform, its simple to peruse available work and apply to what you're interested in, on your terms. What do you need to be successful on Arc? You still need to have strong communication skills – especially since much of it is remote, an ability to use different project managements tools for each client, know how to balance your schedule so you can get the job done, and be comfortable tracking and reporting your time. While the folks at Arc do a great job setting expectations, it's up to us as clients and freelancers to uphold it. I'm proud to be part of a network that embraces the vision of work without boundaries.

This company has a very long and convoluted “vetting process” in which they supposedly qualify you just so you can be a freelance worker. This consists of a four hour coding test, a phone interview, work reference, a 30 or so hour project, another technical interview, just so you can start from zero. When they asked me to take the coding test, I had no idea this was their process. After passing the coding test and the phone interview, I was handed a time consuming and trivial python project to complete. After three days of meticulous work finishing the project AND hosting it for them because they are too lazy to spin up a local server, I hear back nothing from them. Some days later I see my access to the website has been revoked with a two sentence message that I did not pass the project portion. They couldn’t dignify adding a hint of explanation, so I had to send another email to ask why my project was not accepted. This is what I hear: Reason 1 “Eh, we didn’t like your commit message. You had one in there that said ‘small clean up’”, which was was a commit I removed some trailing white space. Reason 2 “You didn’t have enough directories in your repo. Your code was in one ‘huge’ directory”. This was a back end project where there were only four (4) source files in that directory, no front-end, no static resources, no templates, nothing else, just a basic python package. I guess they expected me to put every source file in its own directory. I’ve never in my life heard such nonsense before. Reason 3- “You didn't encrypt the passwords before saving them”. In their project specification, they lousily passed passwords as plain text over HTTP requests. In real applications no one does this. Passwords are hashed on the front-end before they are even sent to the server. So seeing this, I realized they obviously didn't care about security. Mind you, no where in the API specification mentions the slightest requirements about security. Now out of nowhere they are anal about it. That's all she literally wrote. I was really hoping to hear back about some bug from which I could learn something. But as it was, they didn’t find a single bug in my code. They couldn’t fault its functionality. They even had the audacity to praise me because my code was fully documented and they had an easy time reading it. Overall, I feel it's been a major waste of my time. If they want to set up a stringent interview process, I have no qualms with that. But if they make someone like me go through a multi-day job laboring away at a pointless project, they should make absolutely clear what criteria is used to score the submission. This is not a transparent process. It sounded to me like the whims of someone waking up on the wrong side of the bed. If you decide to waste your life going through their vetting process, just be warned that it’s a highly arbitrary process. I’ve lost 25 or so hours and learned nothing but to stay away from them. Good riddance though because there are greater platforms for freelance like Upwork with much more clients to choose from.

I like Arc, great platform!

Arc is an indispensable platform for remote engineers like me. The Arc team is very professional & communicative, payments are always handled seamlessly & on time, and there is a good range of interesting work from very professional clients.

I have been part of the Arc platform for quite some time now, and I really can say that it's an amazing platform for software engineers. From the initial interview through to connecting with the clients - everything is very professional.