Great people, Awesome Company, Huge Growth Potential - Corporate Office Instacart Employee Review

5.0
Aug 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome group of smart, motivated, fun people Industry leading product/service with huge growth and potential Opportunity to take on significant amount of responsibility and shape the growth of the company

Cons

Definitely a huge work load per person but the impact of that work is huge & motivating Don't join if you aren't comfortable (and motivated) by ambiguity and constant change

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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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