Handshake MOVE - Getting better, still meh - Fellow Handshake Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is good. The mission uses a lot of background knowledge from my PhD. It is mentally challenging. The admin part of the company has improved significantly in the past couple months. It's not flawless by any means, but at least there is consistent communication and active channels for support.

Cons

The admin/support team seems too small for the amount of problems reported in the support channel. LLM usage (which is prohibited) keeps happening from bad actors, making it harder for fellows and reviewers that follow the rules. Management keeps changing where communication comes from. Stumping the models correctly can be difficult, and take longer than 3 hours. And you are only able to bill 3 hours of work per successful prompt.

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Work at your own pace.

Cons

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2.0
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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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