I still believe in Handshake - Recensione dipendente - Assistant Controller presso Handshake

5,0
2 dic 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

It’s been a year and a half since I left Handshake but I can easily say, the product has a ton of potential. This will only come to fruition when hiring picks up again. If macroeconomic recruiting is slow, expect things to get tough here and that’s a given for most tech companies at the moment. Don’t intend to down sell other reviews but the leadership (especially the COO, CEO, and cofounders) I worked with genuinely cared about performers. This is true about the CEO as well. Despite how busy he is, he reached out personally to seek feedback and from second hand info, I know my feedback was taken well and changes were made. In short, the management listens, but you first need to establish credibility - isn’t this how it works at every solid company?

Svantaggi

The remote work culture hurts the company as the HR policies are fairly open ended and managers are stuck between giving enough breathing space and holding under-performers accountable.

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Risposta di Handshake
2y
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! You’re right that Handshake’s success relies to a certain extent on whether companies are hiring, and that we’re subject to some of the macroeconomic trends that impact many other tech companies. We’re also glad to hear about your experience with our leadership team. Employee feedback, whether through internal surveys, team meetings, or otherwise, is critical to our success. Lastly, your feedback about the lack of clarity that comes with running a distributed team is noted. We’ve worked hard over the past few years to equip our managers with tools to reasonably and fairly assess their employees’ performance, but we recognize that there is still room for growth here. Again, we really appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback.

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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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