Challenging culture and favoritism overshadow limited positives - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Handshake

1,0
18 mag 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Honestly struggled to find a genuine pro here. If I had to name one, it would be that the funding level gives you access to resources you wouldn't expect, it has the budget of a mature company. But that's where the positives end.

Svantaggi

The culture here is one of the most challenging I've experienced in my career. There's a significant gap between what's communicated during the interview process and the day-to-day reality. Leadership plays favorites in ways that are hard to ignore. Policies like the five-day in-office requirement are selectively enforced, certain people are quietly allowed to come in two or three days a week while others are held to the full mandate. Promotions, visibility, and high-impact projects tend to go to those with pre-existing relationships with leadership rather than based on performance or tenure. If you're an external hire, be prepared to feel like an outsider regardless of what you deliver. The growth narrative they sell in interviews doesn't match reality. Career development conversations are surface level at best, and there's no structured path forward for most roles. Meanwhile, the hire fast fire fast approach means the team is constantly churning, which makes it nearly impossible to build momentum or trust. Benefits and total compensation lag behind what comparable companies in the space are offering. When you factor in the mandatory five-day RTO, the gap becomes even more noticeable. From a product standpoint, competitors like Mercor and Scale are meaningfully ahead. It's hard to recruit top talent or feel excited about the mission when the product isn't leading the market.

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5,0
25 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Convenient as it was remote

Svantaggi

No cons, other than it may take a bit to get paid

1,0
22 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Challenging, interesting position in the short term.

Svantaggi

The company has implemented a new timer policy that has “active” and “inactive” time on the backend that makes up for the total time. We were getting paid by total time (as you should), but HAI has changed it to only pay contributors for the time marked “active.” Time is “active” when scrolling, typing, and clicking within the specific task tab. Time is “inactive” when none of the previous actions are happening; i.e., when reading the task without moving the mouse or pressing keys, researching in another tab, etc. It sounds like they have changed the rules to only pay for active time, which has caused huge pay discrepancies. The percentage of inactive time is usually way more than active time on these timers due to the amount of reading, visual analyzing, thinking, and research required for some tasks. This behavior is unacceptable because time that seems “inactive” is still important to the quality and completion of tasks. They keep throwing accusations like “time thieves” around to justify it. If you respect yourself, pack it up and go somewhere else. I know most people who work at these places are desperate for income, but that’s exactly what they’re hoping for. They’re hoping you will be desperate enough to be taken advantage of.

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