Do your Due Dilligence - Sales Handshake Employee Review

1.0
Jul 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great people. The team is very supportive.

Cons

Handshake is one of the most toxic places on the planet to work. Recruiters blatantly lie that “everyone is hitting their number” when it’s less than a handful. Most employees are getting fired within their first 9 months of joining the job with no prior warning. The product lacks basic functionality when it is significantly more expensive than any other HR technology on the market. The CEO has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and pretends to care about diversity only when the cameras are on. While they claim to be inclusive, management refuses to sell to blue collar jobs in industries that would dirty up their white collar job board. CRO is a rageaholic who consistently goes into profanity laden rants blaming employees about the fact that the product is unsellable. Do your due diligence before joining this organization.

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Pros

Work at your own pace.

Cons

Task limit when new to project.

2.0
Jun 12, 2026
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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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