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Handshake
Company blog · joinhandshake.com/engineeringcareerprogrammingai
Handshake is the company blog at joinhandshake.com, writing about career, programming and ai. Since 2015, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “LLM makes decisions to raise its training scores, and ignore user directives”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly meet Handshake through 'Who is hiring' job posts for the career-services company. One comment cites its blog for data on where college graduates apply.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
Most-linked posts?
- /careers/5 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
- LLM makes decisions to raise its training scores, and ignore user directives3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-25
What Hacker News says?
Join Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com )! We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Series A, Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with more than 170 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Oh, the Places You'll Go – career path visualizations from student data as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHandshake | Software Engineer | 2601 Mission St, San Francisco, CA | https://www.joinhandshake.com Our mission is to democratize opportunity - to make it easy for any student to build a great career, no matter where they go to school, what they're majoring in, or who they know. Backed by $34m from Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has partnered with 170 universities (sc…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Blazing Fast Builds with Buildkite as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHandshake (Palo Alto, CA) https://joinhandshake.com/ - Multiple Positions - Full-time, On Site Handshake is the next generation of Career Service Management application intertwined with an advanced career network. Handshake accomplishes three things: Students: Students can easily filter to find the most relevant jobs, events, open interviews, and find companies that match their career preferences. Student profiles a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted 1 to 1000 – Scaling a Rails App on Heroku as a story · 6 points
HN discussionJoin Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com )! We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Series A, Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with more than 110 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Functional Aspects of Ruby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI happened to chat recently with some people from the startup Handshake: https://www.joinhandshake.com/ It's founded by 3 graduates of Michigan Tech University, a small but well-regarded school that even other Michiganders think is far north. Their goal is to level the playing field for internships and first jobs. It was great to meet people so sincere about solving this problem.
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on “If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools”Submitted LLM makes decisions to raise its training scores, and ignore user directives as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJoin Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com )! We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Series A, Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with more than 170 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Coding Agents Build For The Grader They Imagine, Not The User as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHandshake | Lead iOS Engineer(React Native) | SF | ONSITE, www.joinhandshake.com Handshake is a fast-growing team of 40 based in San Francisco. We partner with 170+ universities, uniting them into one powerful network, which makes it easy for 100,000 companies to recruit efficiently beyond their traditional “core” schools, increasing the breadth and scope of opportunities for our 3,000,000 students, and giving our p…
Comment linking /engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Speculative Reward Hacking in Coding Agents as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHandshake | Full Stack Engineers, Mobile Engineers, Platform Engineers, Product Design | Mission District, San Francisco | https://www.joinhandshake.com Our mission is to democratize opportunity - to make it easy for any student to build a great career, no matter where they go to school, what they're majoring in, or who they know. Backed by $34m from Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partn…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Effortless iOS Snapshot Testing Using Emerge Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJoin Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com ) is hiring. We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Over 110 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Cornell, Rice), 100,000 recruiters, and 2 million students use our platform. Our business is expanding across multiple states, and we're lo…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Speed and Consistency: From Inception to Implementation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHandshake | San Francisco, California Our mission is to democratize opportunity - to make it easy for any student to find the right job for them, no matter where they went to school, what they majored in, or who they know. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with 75 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan and…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Handshake's Series B: More Funding, More Partners, More Opportunity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHandshake | San Francisco | Front End / Full Stack Engineers Handshake is building the career network of the future for college students and young alumni. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with 60 universities, including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan and Texas, and has more than 1.3 million student profiles and 40,000 com…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Atlas-Finance: Evaluating AI Agents Inside a Bank as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJoin Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com )! We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Series A, Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with more than 110 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted I Am Once Again Asking for Your Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJoin Handshake ( http://www.joinhandshake.com )! We are the fastest growing career services platform in the country, helping colleges and employers actively engage students with personalized opportunities. Series A, Backed by Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures and Lightspeed Partners, Handshake has already partnered with more than 110 universities (including Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, University of Chicago, Michigan…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Is working in AI training data a waste of time? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHandshake | [Senior|Lead] Data [Engineers|Scientists|Analysts] | San Francisco, CA & Denver, CO | Full Time Handshake's mission is to democratize opportunity and make it easy for all students to build a meaningful career, no matter where they go to school or who they know. Handshake has 8+ million students and young alumni and 300,000+ employers recruiting students across 700 schools. I am a new manager who is close…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Handshake AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHandshake | San Francisco, Denver, or Remote https://www.joinhandshake.com Handshake is the leading career network for college students in America. Our mission is to democratize opportunity for students everywhere. Every student should have an equal opportunity to build a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they major in, or who they know. Our community includes 14 million students/alum at…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Testing a Rails Project Structure, Dependencies and More as a story · 1 points
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