Good potential; currently flailing. - Recensione dipendente - Marketing presso Handshake

2,0
31 gen 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

In general, great, talented people who are very invested in making the product and company live up to its potential. Work is remote and flexible (though you can work and get snacks in one of the hub offices). My compensation package was very fair.

Svantaggi

Disorganized, constantly changed priorities the whole time I worked there, and no one seemed to be in charge. "Students first" value is at odds with the product priorities. Some pretty glaring (and fundamental) product questions were glossed over. Plus the weird layoff situation where people were quite clearly laid off - NOT for performance issues - but leadership insists it wasn't layoffs. Basically, when the going got tough, Handshake decided to lay folks off, blame them, then take away benefits for current staff (a company-wide week off on July 4th is no longer offered) and slap a "high performance culture" label on everything.

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5,0
24 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Remote opportunities for different projects.

Svantaggi

Projects often pause, and we wish they would last longer.

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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