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Awesome place to make an impact!

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Instacart for 2 years
October 25, 2016
San Francisco, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

We solve really hard problems and utilize everyone's unique skill set.

Engineers have a fair amount of flexibility on which projects they work on and the role they play -- your business and product ideas are valued.

Our work is meaningful -- we help millions of elderly, disabled, busy families, and others with groceries while employing tens of thousands of people.

The company is headed to a great place and it's awesome helping us to get there.

Cons

As a tech company disrupting an old industry, there are more business stakeholders than your typical tech company. For some engineers, this can be frustrating. However, we work together and find great solutions that draw from everyone's experience.

Advice to Management

We should be much more proactive with the press. Our successes aren't well enough known, and we're letting the media get away with a pessimistic spin that can hurt our ability to hire great employees, attract customers, and even raise funding. Just because we know it's BS isn't enough.

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