Handshake

Smart and caring teammates, who tend to be drawn by the company's stated mission of democratizing access to opportunities.

Day-to-day work is generally not overly micromanaged, but can depend on your manager.

• Flexible daily schedule and work remotely
• Good pay

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 codebase 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.

Stop taking employees for granted and seeing them as easily replaceable, interchangeable cogs in a machine.

Stop burning out employees with unreasonable deadlines and unrealistic goals.

Don't lose sight of the core mission of Handshake in the quest for maximum profitability.