Toptal Designer interview questions

First stage: phone call with a staff. Second stage: upload resume. Third stage: don't know (I stopped at the second stage). The staff showed up 15min late due to another Skype interview that he had with another candidate. I had a 20-min Skype interview that felt very impersonal, and rushed. Nothing about what I want to learn in joining Toptal as a freelancer. But all about becoming one of their workers to work for big companies and getting $$ from that. It felt like a 'online sweatshop' for freelancers. So I didn't continue with the process.

Had a few interviews spread out over a couple of months. One of them included a design exercise (unpaid). Once accepted, you then have to create a portfolio up to their standards, which took several revisions. The whole process was very time consuming. I was finally accepted, only to find that Toptal is not a company that hires you on for a full time remote role, as they seem to insinuate. They also are not a platform for you to find jobs like freelancer sites allow. It is instead a group of recruiters, that pimp you out to small projects, for which you are competing with other freelancers who have been accepted to their network, all over the world. Considering I have not heard back from any application I have put in since I joined months ago, I do not recommend spending the time to do all this work for them. There are plenty of recruiters that can help you locally and who will actually keep in regular contact, without making you jump through hoops.