Fulfilling Experience - Software Engineer Handshake Employee Review

5.0
Jan 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The team all really believes in trying to help people get jobs out of college, regardless of what school you went to. People really believe this here, the CEO got a little teary eyed at one of the all hands talking about it. - Team's are small enough that you can drive forward projects you find valuable. I've worked on many different high impact / visible initiatives and I haven't been here as long as most of the team. - The people that work here are very talented and hard working. They're also very modest and friendly, everyone checks their egos at the door.

Cons

- Product management is a bit on the light side, sometimes this is sold as a positive but realistically it means some things fall through the crack every now and then.

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Cons

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Pros

It's flexible and sometimes the money is OK. I got paid most of what they owed me.

Cons

Generally disorganized. The task I was on was one of the more highly paid ones but it was almost impossible to actually do in the allotted time. You aren't supposed to use AI but I think people must. The tasks run far over the time they are supposed to take. The human review system also seemed almost arbitrary. Reviewers did not have the subject matter expertise they claimed to. You will make less than the advertised hourly rate because the tasks routinely take longer than they say they will. If they have averages that are lower, those people are either not submitting accurate hours (there is incentive not to) or are using AI to train AI, which is a bigger problem (but not yours).

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