Beware: Chaotic CMO + Marketing Team - Marketing Instacart Employee Review

2.0
7 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I would say all benefits offered are standard within the tech industry.

Cons

If you like stress, immense pressure, chaotic planning, indecisive CMO, and complete disregard for hard work, this is the place fo you! All jokes aside, If you're planning on working for their Marketing team, I'd reconsider (especially if you're a woman). IMO, it all stems from the leadership and "managers" in Marketing. They'll work you to the ground and as soon as you come up for air, take maternity leave, or ask for a more prioritized workload, you will be put on a "performance plan," laid off, or fired. Its like a "use it or lose it" policy, but for their own employees. To top it off, there's really no clear vision, path forward, or consistent alignment anywhere within the org. Good luck to anyone on these teams.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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