Completely useless now. Their search algorithm is horrible, and they have no sorting ability and so have to take their irrelevant suggested profiles and keep clicking through the pages. They invested a lot of time and effort into useless rebranding from odesk, yet created massive engineering holes and made the whole website's UX and UI a lot worse. Contractors are unhappy as well and leaving in droves, my job posts that used to get 30 applications 2 years ago, would get 3 or 4 now (primarily thanks to a now-horrible search facility but also because so many contractors abandoned them apparently).
It is unfortunate that they killed eLance in the process.
EDIT: They have improved things vastly over the past few months. The search algorithm makes the occaisional irrelevant suggestion, but nowhere near as before. Number of contractor applications have grown back close to the levels before the merge. However their rising charges are making it a problem for a lot of contractors who don’t want to lose 5-15% of their pay apparently, and some even dare to ask to be paid off the platform. We naturally turn that down, but we understand where they come from.
Still have a way to go to fix the sorting function, the platform still wants to take the lead in suggesting who is the best fit for the job and you can only filter contractors out. You can’t put them in an order of preference based on your own priorities.
3/5 till we see further improvement.