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FWIW, worked with multiple people through Toptal from all over the world from US to North Africa to Central Asia.

I’m not sure of the commission Toptal takes their min hourly rate we’ve been quoted is now approx $80 p/h for PHP dev.

Edit: the minimum rate is $80 p/h, seen up to $140 but wouldn’t assume that’s the ceiling.

I see, and were you pleased with the quality of the final work produced by them?

In short, yes. As with any remote teamwork, things can go a little awry without good communication.

Toptal run their own technical screening process (can’t attest to if that’s painful or not) and we’ve never done any on our side. “Interviews” from us have always been a quick check that people are interested in working on the problems and then code quality is reviewed during first commits in the trial period.

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