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      Handshake

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      Handshake reviews

      3.1

      43% would recommend to a friend

      (289 total reviews)

      Garrett Lord

      44% approve of CEO

      37% positive business outlook

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      3.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Culture & values

      2.3

      Senior management

      Handshake has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 289 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Handshake employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      289 reviews
      5.0
      Dec 1, 2020

      Strong growth and COVID response

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Handshake is a fast moving company with a lot of opportunities for growth and learning. Handshake has done a good job of responding to COVID by building new virtual recruiting features to help recruiters and companies.

      Cons

      The fast pace isn't for everyone. Although "informal" opportunities are plenty, "formal" opportunities are less common because the company is relatively small.

      5.0
      Nov 25, 2020

      Great team, fast pace

      Anonymous
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Mission that truly makes an impact, supportive team members, lots of opportunities to grow and develop. Lots of exciting growth coming over the next year+!

      Cons

      Sometimes it can be hard to keep up on all of the information moving around the company - especially things happening on teams other than your own. Transparency is good but continuing to refine how that gets shared out in a digestible way would be helpful!

      2.0
      Oct 29, 2020

      Zero conception of work/life balance

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fast-growing, if that appeals to you. If you want to work super hard you’ll get a lot of “props” and “shout outs” and “woot woot”s from the team. Last I checked you can’t pay the rent with a shout-out though.

      Cons

      As others have said, there is no work/life balance here. “Unlimited” PTO comes with blackout periods where time off isn’t allowed (roughly four-five months of the year). When people do take vacation days, the expectation is that you’ll check email once a day and respond to “emergencies”, and provide a cell phone number where you can be reached. Working weekends and late nights is the norm. During the interview process, they’ll sell you on their grand vision of equalizing opportunities for students from underprivileged backgrounds. Maybe once upon a time that was true, but these days you can practically see the dollar signs in the CEO’s eyes. There is no mission apart from making money. Internal communication is pretty bad but that’s par for the course with growing startups so you can’t hold it against them.

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