I’ve just received an email with “Welcome to Toptal!” title

Aleksandar Danilovic
Javarevisited
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2 min readDec 14, 2021

I’m Top Talent — now officially

Toptal logo — Top 3% of Freelance Talent
Toptal logo

Hello, my friends! I’ve just received an email with the famous “Welcome to Toptal!” message. I’ve dreamed this for almost 5 years, and now I’m finally succeeded! First tried in the first half of 2017, and have succeeded just now, from the third attempt. It’s hard to describe feelings, but this should be celebrated!

Good things should be celebrated!
Photo by Matthieu Joannon on Unsplash

Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. Top companies hire Toptal freelancers for their most important projects. “Toptal” comes from Top Talent, and they receive just Top 3% of applicants.

The turning point in my career was described in my article How I’ve become a coding machine in my “older ages”. From there you will know how to get on the success path. When I published the story, I was in the middle of a process to join Toptal. But I knew I would succeed, that’s why I published that.

Like in “The Matrix” movie, you know when the moment comes.

The Matrix
Photo by Dan LeFebvre on Unsplash

Now is time for the celebration. So I will not speak more. But in one of the next stories I will describe this big success. To be more precise, I will not speak about Toptal rigorous screening process in detail. Now I’m member of Toptal, I shouldn’t do that by NDA agreement. But I will describe my feelings and how I motivated myself. Be prepared, unbelievable story will come! The world will get know what is “Operation Toptal”!

Cheers!

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Aleksandar Danilovic
Javarevisited

Work as Senior Java developer for 16 years. Publish stories about Java, algorithms, object oriented design, system design and programmers' life styles