Handshake Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.6

83% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

Garrett Lord

24% approve of CEO

4% positive business outlook

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10 reviews
2.0
Jul 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* Smart and caring team mates, who tend to be drawn by the company's stated mission of democratizing access to opportunities * Day-to-day work is generally not overly micro-managed, but can depend on your manager * Flexible daily schedule and work remotely * Good pay

Cons

* Leadership decrees overly ambitious deadlines and refuses to let them slip, causing extreme employee burnout. * Rushing to get new features out instead of having time to create them properly, contributes to the overall shoddiness of the code base and the large number of incidents that On Call has to respond to * House of cards codebase that is only getting worse not better * Mission is taking a hit because leadership is so focused on trying to avoid late stage startup failure that they are frantically "throwing spaghetti at the wall" to see what sticks, including initiatives that conflict with the supposed mission of Handshake * Employees treated like numbers and zero empathy from C-suite.

3.0
Feb 9, 2023

Great Before the Reorg

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

4.0
Dec 30, 2022

Good culture

Recommend
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Pros

Great culture in the workplace. Good compensation Great mission.

Cons

This company is trying to go public, which is not inherently bad, but there has been a lot of shuffling in middle management and it’s likely that the workplace looks different in the coming years.

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