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Mission-driven Team, Project Ownership

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Handshake for 2 years
January 19, 2017
San Francisco, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The team all really believes in trying to help people get jobs out of college, regardless of what school you went to. People truly believe this here; the CEO got a little teary-eyed at one of the all-hands meetings talking about it.

The teams are small enough that you can drive forward projects you find valuable. I've worked on many different high-impact/visible initiatives, and I haven't been here as long as most of the team.

The people who work here are very talented and hard-working. They're also very modest and friendly; everyone checks their egos at the door.

Cons

Product management is a bit on the light side. Sometimes this is sold as a positive, but realistically, it means some things fall through the cracks every now and then.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing. You have a team that believes strongly in the work they're doing and is set up to achieve great things.

Also, highlight more the things that need to be improved. Only brutal honesty about our successes and failures will help us all become better.

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