Handshake is the future platform for all students to find careers & an awesome place to work - Sales Handshake Employee Review

5.0
4 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Absolutely amazing product, business model, and people to work with/for. Handshake's platform is the #1 resource for all students in the US and 900 universities leverage the platform to allow their students to connect with jobs from over 400,000 companies (which is completely free for students + alumni). Leadership and nearly all of the employees are insanely driven, focused on putting students first, and have an awesome future vision for the company. Work-Life balance is one of the best I've seen. Need time off? No problem. Treat you like an adult and allow you to work on your time (in a very reasonable fashion).

Cons

It's growing really fast and with any "start-up" there is lots of change. Pretty impossible to avoid and can be frustrating at times, but provides lots of area for growth and learning. Are the CEO & some of leadership young with a lot to learn? Definitely. However, the CEO specifically has over 3 executive coaches, is Forbes 30 under 30, cares more about people than any other CEO I've ever met, and tries harder than any SaaS CEO I've worked for to make the company a fun place to work. Last, not a con at all, but Handshake is just beginning to monetize (as any for profit needs to do), which has the "tenured" employees questioning (now that revenue is coming in) if the #1 goal is to help students rather than just to make a profit. The reality is revenue only allows the company to build a better product for students, so ultimately it's an extremely positive "change".

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Pros

Work at your own pace.

Cons

Task limit when new to project.

2.0
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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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