Toptal is a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform that connects businesses with software engineers, designers, and business consultants.
The firm developed personality, language, and skills testing to remotely screen engineering candidates, and accepted the top 3% of several thousand monthly applicants.
Taso Du Val and Breanden Beneschott founded the company in 2010. Val was previously an engineer at Fotolog and Slide.com while Beneschott was an undergraduate at Princeton University.
The name stands for “top talent”, and it was started as a virtual company with no dedicated offices. The company has no headquarters.