Great Before the Reorg - Senior Software Engineer Handshake Employee Review

3.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* Flexible working hours (unless you're on-call) * No meeting Thursdays * Great coworkers * Good insurance coverage

Cons

* Lack of growth opportunities past senior * Uncompensated on-call * Lack of product vision * Lack of support from leadership * Lack of resources to complete work * 1% 401k match topping out at $1200/year is token at best * Company culture never really recovered from the reorg * Review cycles are about who likes you, not how well you do

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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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