If you are ready to grow, learn, and do your life's work, work here - Area Manager Instacart Employee Review

5.0
Mar 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Rapid growth and change is not for everyone, but this is the place you want to put in your life's work. Company-wide support and engagement across departments make even remote working productive and fruitful - Making the right hires for the right attributes shows here - leaders are by and large knowledgeable, mature, and considerate. The primary drive is to educate and to support while asking for exceptional results - Job safety is an underlying concept of your work - Management is fully supportive of your work-life balance and helping you develop it - You have an opportunity to truly 'own' the growth of a program or concept you have ideated and to see it come to fruition - You should be prepared to actively participate in change management, the emotional load of people operations, and constructive collaboration with your superiors

Cons

- Rapid growth and change is not for everyone - be prepared for work beyond conventional working hours and days. Although this can be a challenge, support is always there, and that work can be your proudest career moment

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5.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

Focused direction. Good WLB. Decent pay. Fully remote.

Cons

A bit slow growth on business and career

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2.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fun going out and talking to people. You will interact with people everyday. You control how much you get paid. Lots of flexibility in the time between accepting an order and traveling to the store and beginning to shop. It isn't pedal to the metal to get to the store like DoorDash is. You can also cancel batches after accepting as long as you keep your rate under 15%. This is different from DoorDash where your rankings will suffer if g.t. 2% cancellation rate.

Cons

There's a learning curve and it takes a while to learn each chain of stores' items. Once you become proficient at one store, the algorithm will lowball your offers relative to other less-experienced Instacart shoppers. Overall, Instacart shoppers likely get paid similar or less than the store's regular employees.

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