Reviews provide students with a chance to voice their opinions on internships they've completed. These reviews are collected via email campaigns sent out by Handshake.
We strongly recommend that students post honest, and helpful critiques of their employers. All reviews must follow our Content Guidelines before being posted on an employer's Handshake Company Page.
For more information on our Content Guidelines, refer to Reviews - Content Guidelines.
Submit a review
Handshake's email campaign. Handshake sends an annual email campaign in the fall to activated students encouraging them to submit a review.
This survey starts by asking students, “What did you do this past summer?” and allows students to select non-work experiences like “Research” and “Taking Time Off”. If a student indicates they participated in an internship, they have the option to leave a review.
Below is an example of the prompts collected from the email.
Page 1 - What did you do?
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What kind of experience did you have? (Choose one)
- Internship
- Summer Job
- Research
- Volunteering
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What was your job?
- Job Title *
- Employer *
- Location *
- Start Date *
- End Date *
- Check box for ongoing
- Yes, I want to add this experience to my profile
- Check box to add the above information to your profile
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What was your salary?
- Salary (Enter a number)
- Pay schedule
- Unpaid
- Hourly wage
- Annual Salary
- Monthly Stipend
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Did you receive a return offer?
- Yes
- No
- Still waiting to hear back
- Not applicable
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Which of these resources did you use to find your job?
- Job Posting on Handshake
- Career Centre Resources
- Career Fair
- Career Centre Events
- On-Campus Interview
- Personal Network
- Other Job Posting Source
- Other
* indicates the field is required
Click the blue button Next in the lower-right corner to proceed.
Page 2 - What was your role?
- What did you like?
- What do you wish had been different?
- What's one piece of advice you would share about this experience?
Review our Privacy Settings, and choose how you would like your review to be visible to others.
- Full Name, Level of Study, Course, and Institution
- Level of Study, Course, and Institution only
- Anonymous (only visible for career services centre)
Note: as of August 2024, Reviews are no longer shown on the employer's company page for other students and employers to access.
Click the blue button Next in the lower-right corner to proceed.
Page 3 - Rate your experience
- How was your experience?
- What attributes best describe the employer culture?
- What type of employer was this?
- What perks and benefits were there?
- Which identity(ies) have dedicated resources available to them at your employer?
- Which identity(ies) are represented in leadership at your employer?
- What were the mentorship and development opportunities like?
- What was your work like?
- Who did you get to work with?
Click the blue button Submit in the lower-right corner of the page, then click the button Confirm, located within the pop-up to complete the submission.
Page 4 - What was the interview like (optional)
Once the job/internship review is submitted, you'll be prompted to share some details about your interview.
Note: this review is separate from the job/internship review.
If you'd like to review your interview experience, proceed with the folowing questions:
- What was the interview process like?
- What was one question you were asked in the interview?
Review our Privacy Settings, and choose how you would like your review to be visible to others.
- Full Name, Level of Study, Course, and Institution
- Level of Study, Course, and Institution only
- Anonymous (only visible for career services centre)
Note: as of August 2024, Reviews are no longer shown on the employer's company page for other students and employers to access.
Click the blue button Submit in the lower-right corner of the page, then click the button Confirm, located within the pop-up to complete the submission.
Review is Pending Approval
If you have a “pending approval” notice above your review, it means that Handshake’s moderators haven't approved it. Reviews shouldn't take more than 5 business days for moderators to approve a review.
Handshake moderators read every review before they are published to make sure they follow our guidelines:
- Authoritative: the reviewer must have worked for the employer they've reviewed.
- Unique: only one review per internship or job experience.
- Original: all reviews should be original.
- Comprehensible: all reviews should be literate and comprehensible.
- Not Personal: no negative reviews that identify individuals or contact info.
- Not Profane: no profanities, threats of violence or discriminatory language.
- Not Confidential: cannot reveal confidential company information.
- Not Spam: no advertisements or irrelevant content.
For more information on our Content Guidelines, check out Reviews - Content Guidelines.
Review was Declined
If you've received an alert that your review was declined, our moderators will include an explanation about why it was declined in relation to our Content Guidelines.
We strongly encourage you to edit your review according to that feedback and resubmit it for re-moderation. We want to make sure other students can read and learn about your experience!
Edit or delete review
Click on your icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, then click My Reviews from the dropdown.
All reviews are listed on the page. Locate the review you'd like to edit/delete, then click the pencil icon in the upper-right corner of the box.
- To edit, update the information you'd like to change, then click the green button Save.
- To delete, scroll to the bottom of the page, then click the red button Delete.