Very fast moving culture - Software Engineer Handshake Employee Review

3.0
Dec 7, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Very friendly coworkers - Opportunity to mold your position the way you want - Very supportive team - Diverse company - Opportunities for growth - Unlimited (Flexible) PTO - Focused on improving the culture

Cons

- Very social and exhausting - Often called out to speak even when you feel uncomfortable - Way too many meetings (probably because of covid) - The culture is very fast which makes it more challenging to produce high quality - Possible bias in selecting seniority level

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Work at your own pace.

Cons

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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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