Handshake User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience34.5% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience58.3% of reviews

~ Based on 336 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Handshake Safe?

Handshake: Jobs & AI work appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Handshake is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 133,003 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

96.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 133,003 App Store ratings for Handshake.

Is Handshake Legit?

Handshake: Jobs & AI work appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Handshake is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Open on app bug

Great app in a lot of ways, but there seems to either be a bug happening or this is in need of another look from the ux team: I get an email with a list of jobs, I click on one to learn more about it, it opens in my browser (duck duck go), a pop up asks me if I want to view the job on the Handshake app instead of my browser and here’s where the experience takes a dive—I can’t get rid of the pop up to just view it in my browser, but if I click to go to Handshake, instead of opening the already-installed-on-my-phone app, it opens the app store—which knows that I’ve downloaded already, so I click the “open” button, and it takes me to the app but not to the job I was interested in viewing, which I then have to search for. Please take a look and see if you can streamline the flow on this. Thanks for reading!
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Cool

👍

Nonfunctional App

Does not work properly. Can’t apply for and jobs just shows an error. Given the amount of recent 1-star reviews I will consider myself lucky that I couldn’t get in. Seems most people are not getting paid and found a class action lawsuit against them for non-payment. Avoid this app and company apparently is the best idea.
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APP NOT WORKING

All time it’s showing try again and try again.

FIX THIS ISSUE

Easy to use

As a student, this app is very easy to use

Love this app

Great for finding job while in college and after

the app won’t log me in

mind you signing in on the ACTUAL website it works. signing in on this app is so stupid. I sat here for more than 10 minutes trying to sign in using my school account. Idk what’s going on but yall need to fix it, like at this point just get rid of the app and continue working as a website

Horrible Support for Employers

I own a company and we were looking to hire 3 entry level associates. We have used Handshake in the past and had success. Without any warning, heads up, or message, our account was suspended and we lost all access to the candidates that had applied and scheduled interviews. We no longer had contact details or resumes for those that were showing up for their interview. We reached out to the support email they provided 4-5 times. It took 3 weeks to finally get a response. They wanted us to verify more company information about our LLC which we did quickly. We hired 1 of the 3 openings we needed to fill. 25 days later, our account got suspended again without any notice. It’s not been ANOTHER 3 weeks without any response to the 7 emails we have sent. We will no longer be using Handshake and we highly recommend other employers be very careful about using this as a source of hiring
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Response from developer

Hi! Thank you for leaving a review. We’d like to look further into this for you. Please submit a ticket here: Submit a request – Handshake Help Center (https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and include the phrase “App Review” when describing the issue. We look forward to assisting you!

Worst app

it doesn't work in India but still
available for India regions and regarding the Seal project i applied for verification it is still under review and its been 15 days what kind of sheety service is this??

Terrible search function

Jobs advertised on my uni’s instagram saying they can be found on Handshake. I go to the app and search the exact job title but it comes up with zero results. I try to find it through browsing jobs but it shows me jobs in other countries. I restrict the search to my city but then it shows about 3 jobs but all in different cities.
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Accessibility

Easy to use

Scams everywhere

This app is completely overrun with job scams and why is there no way to report a job from the app? Seems like they want to keep the scammers in business.

Unpaid Hours & Ignored Support – Handshake AI

Sharing my firsthand contractor experience with Handshake AI (Project Hedgehog & Multimango):
Unpaid Work: Completed 89+ hours of logged, verified work. The earnings dashboard was reset to $0.00, blamed on "sync delays."
No Support: Submitted pay disputes with timer screenshots. Messages were ignored, and I was removed from Slack channels without explanation.
Legal Action: Due to unpaid wages, I filed an official Wage Claim (29 pages of proof) with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).
Documenting this factual experience to warn other contractors: keep strict logs of all your work.
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Ugh

I’m annoyed because it forces you to fill everything out in the app; we can’t use the browser anymore to fill out for jobs.

Doesn’t work on IPhone

Doesn’t correctly open on my iPhone.

fake job postings

indeed had said that handshake “was hiring” for medical review of AI outputs. it was posted as working for handshake, asynchronous, WFH, so i was thinking i’m going to work for this company itself. the original posting said $300/hr, and when i went to the actual posting it went down to $110/hr. i went through the “apply” process thinking i can do this medical review on the side but the entire “applying” process was just so i could download their app. no surprise, that job didn’t actually exist. the entire applying process was just so they could get me to download their app and most likely harvest personal information. why on earth would a job searching app pose as an actual job on another job searching app(indeed)? they’re just trying to get people searching for jobs on their own app. sketchy, terrible, scam
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Response from developer

Hi! Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I have submitted your feedback to our product team for review. We appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback regarding our app.

This is the worst app in the history of the world

I just signed in using my school id and instead of progressing to anything. The app asked my what my school was again. If I was a software developer at this company I would be ashamed of myself and quit.

A scam

Scam, still haven’t paid me.

Terrible Customer Service

I joined and add my resume, got job offers and then was unable to join the jobs offered. Sent in a ticket only to be told to send it proof of education. I submitted my degree and was then told I was banned from the platform. Over 25 years in Managment and I’ve never seen such a poorly ran platform with poorly trained staff. Hr trained professionals should be screening and answering emails not random people who have poor hr training and ban applicants at leisure. Don’t waste your time on this app.
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Trash

Waste of time