If you respect yourself, stay away - Machine Learning Engineer Handshake Employee Review

1.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pros used to be great people and great learning opportunities. Now it’s just rich kids telling everyone what to do and vibe coding over everything

Cons

Too many to list. CEO, toxic culture, little opportunity for growth unless you are a favorite or friend of someone in charge.

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5.0
12 June 2026
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Pros

Work at your own pace.

Cons

Task limit when new to project.

2.0
12 June 2026
Recommend
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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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