Turing.com Review: How Good Is Turing For Remote Software Jobs? Should You Apply?
"I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for me to work and experience the remote culture. I gave it a try and here I am working in one of the best companies with a perfect work-life balance"
Turing.com is a technology company that helps remote developers find quality software jobs at some of the top US companies and startups. The platform has gained a lot of traction over the past few years as a lot of remote developers from countries like India, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Croatia, Mexico and more have successfully grabbed jobs at reputed Silicon Valley companies. The company claims over a million developers have signed up to its platform so far and the number is growing with each passing day. Now the question is should you join Turing to get remote software jobs?
A lot of developers and internal Turing members have shared their reviews about the company on various platforms. You can totally read them and make an informed decision about Turing company. But I think out of those reviews, the review posted by Vinay Nair, a front-end developer with Turing, gives us a balanced view of the company. He has talked about both the pros and cons of Turing.com in a detailed post. I am reproducing what he wrote on Quora here so that you can read that too. Here's what he wrote.
"My experience with Turing.com has been awesome! I have been working with Turing.com for the past few months now and today I am here to share my personal experience. With the pandemic hit hard, I was looking for a job that offers complete remote work as my parents are senior citizens. You would ask why not go for freelancing? The thing is I wanted stability which I am never gonna get if I work as a freelancer.
I applied for the job through LinkedIn and a few days later I got a call. I researched about the company and how it works. I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for me to work and experience the remote culture. I gave it a try and here I am working in one of the best companies with a perfect work-life balance.
Here are a few points that I would like to mention as to why I applied:
Turing.com offers U.S. opportunities: Turing provides Silicon Valley/American jobs to developers. All the jobs are work from home in nature and long-term, personally, this was very attractive to me.
Turing's salary is usually higher than the market range: Because the clients are US companies it usually offers better than market average salaries to developers from around the world.
Faster onboarding: My onboarding happened surprisingly quickly, I was onboarded within a month of applying, although your mileage might vary.
Better work-life balance: Turing.com offers flexible work hours, rather than rigid timetables. I overlap about 4 hours with the U.S. timezone and spend 4 hours during the day according to my convenience. This gives me time to catch up on my reading or play soccer, help out at home, etc.
Long-term remote software jobs: Something I mentioned earlier also, that stability was super important to me but I did not want to go to the office in the middle of a pandemic. So this was a real clincher for me.
Cons: The only downside that I could think of was probably that the company has scaled very quickly (I read recently that they’ve become a Unicorn) and hence are experiencing growing pains. Although I did not personally experience it I have heard some people have complained about some challenges they faced during the process. But it always seemed to me that these are pretty standard start-up troubles and I was willing to overlook and still give it a shot. I’m really glad I did."
I hope this article has given you some clarity about Turing.com. Let me know in the comment section what you think about it.
