Handshake hiring trends
What Handshake's hiring actually looks like over time — which roles stay open, which get pulled, and where headcount is really going.
Last checked 02 October 2026
75
Open now
60
Filled or pulled
11
Teams hiring
Open the longest
A role that stays open for months usually means the bar is high, the pay is off, or nobody is saying yes.
| Role | Location | Opened |
|---|---|---|
| Engagement Manager | San Francisco, CA | 10 months ago |
| Manager, Strategic Projects | San Francisco, CA | 10 months ago |
| Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience | San Francisco, CA | 6 months ago |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | New York, NY | 5 months ago |
| Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | 5 months ago |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE | San Francisco, CA | 5 months ago |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | San Francisco, CA | 5 months ago |
| Senior Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI | San Francisco, CA | 4 months ago |
| Strategic Projects Lead | San Francisco, CA | 4 months ago |
| Manager, Strategic Projects | India | 4 months ago |
Roles posted more than once
These roles were taken down and then advertised again — a revolving door, and worth asking about in an interview.
| Role | Times posted |
|---|---|
| Enterprise Account Manager | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Coding | 2 |
This page gets better with age. It is built from a daily record that started the day we began watching Handshake. Every day it runs, there is more history here that cannot be reconstructed from anywhere else — because the original posts are deleted.
Job posts get deleted. We keep them.
FirstIn watches company job boards at the source and tells you the moment a role opens — and keeps the record after it's taken down, so you can see what really happened to a team's hiring.