Proceed with Caution - Anonymous employee Handshake Employee Review

2.0
14 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation was generally fair, but please see some of the caveats (performance increases and 401K match) in the other sections. A few of the people are a joy to work with. Work-life balance isn’t that bad.

Cons

It feels like a sinking ship. Far too many cooks in the kitchen from scaling quickly during the pandemic, and having no idea how to staff appropriately. Unnecessarily tense cross-functional relationships are the norm and make for a toxic environment. A reorg caused chaos for multiple weeks and brought on massive burnout during a busier season of the year. Overall, there’s a feeling of passing the buck, disengagement amongst employees, and simply waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Cons

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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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