Deceitful and Arrogant - Manager Handshake Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Open PTO, remote work, week off between Xmas and New Year’s Day, and week off for 4th of July

Cons

Handshake is desperately attempting to hide mass layoffs so they don’t have to report it. They are providing handsome severance packages and citing no performance issues or constructive feedback. It’s not performance terminations it’s an unreported legal RIF because they are struggling and will likely not make it. They were overvalued and are so ego driven they hired frivolously and now real people are completely caught off guard and being let go.

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5.0
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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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