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what does the engineers salary have to do with anything
That they get paid a lot? And sometimes it’s to deliver groceries.
Getting paid a lot means you can demand anything now?
DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
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Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#42DoorDash is a good idea in principle, but it's poorly executed. Among their competitors, Grubhub is superior in every way. The reasons I dislike DoorDash and stopped using it: - It has frequent outages. - Has been the subject of controversies regarding tips. - Does not have live customer support. They get back to you in 3 days. Grubhub has none of the issues above, and they are always on top of orders. Amazon Restaur…
Whichever app you are using, you are only considering how it affects you. This is natural, and not a judgment. Rarely does the user consider how it affects the restaurants themselves. I have yet to read a positive experience for the restaurants.
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#43The amount of people both here and at DD who think that the task is "beneath them" is appallingly large.
"Today you, tomorrow me" should be what everyone says to themselves when confronted with this sort of thing.
Yet another manifestation of the callousness of SF tech workers
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#44Has anyone considered that this is simply a viral stunt created by the gossip website (which I'd rather not name) in order to promote itself? Even if the commentary isn't fake, it's just one engineer within a huge organization. For those upvoting this story, shouldn't our outrage/attention be directed elsewhere?
This was absolutely a promotional piece.
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
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Can you explain to me how someone who spends their entire day in k8s and helm charts would benefit by exploring the UX of an application through the lens of the user? Beyond a normal study, that is?
If the application actually uses that k8s cluster, then you might actually want to see the real-world performance of it all instead of just aggragated response time graphs.
There's more to real-world performance than k8s cluster.
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#46Curious if you're allowed to leave early or come in late for this, or if they are asking employees to do it outside of their regular working hours.
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#47One engineer who is getting nearly $0.5m total compensation and when asked to do one delivery a month, they are now throwing a tantrum over that. But you know what? Good. Maybe that is what they need since the drivers and riders get 0.01% of what these engineers earn and I'm sure that there were complaints about that. So when one is getting nearly $0.5m for the engineering work and told to do just ONE delivery a mont…
One of the issues I have in the whole software industry is the lack of empathy for regular folks and a lack understanding of how hard the average person has to bust their ass just to make it in life with just the basics. I personally believe it leads to products that are often disconnected completely from the people who actually use them and damaging to our social fabric. I applaud DoorDash for this move and quite fr…
> One of the issues I have in the whole software industry is the lack of empathy for regular folks and a lack understanding of how hard the average person has to bust their ass just to make it in life with just the basics.
And how is that industry issue?
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#48I remember one comment here in HN that mentioned how in the future society will be divided in those above and bellow the API. About the difference in quality of life of those that make the platform, and those that work for it, like the gig workers. It made me angry because was too cold, but in line with reality. I really hope this type of strategies help in this regard. For the people developing those platforms, to r…
Do you remember what thread that comment was in?
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#49They did this at chick-fil-a corporate as well. An extremely competent product manager described the yearly experience as “standing around not knowing what I should do and trying not to get in the way.” Those kitchens get hectic, super different than being in the office.
I assume you were supposed to watch the employees interact with the technology, and ask them a few questions on their break or something. Trying to see if there's anything about the point-of-sale, employee scheduling, payroll, or other tech that seemed like a good idea back at Headquarters, but doesn't work well in real life. Or new ideas that would make things easier, etc.
Re: DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food
#50I have seen a dozen adds from Doordash promoting becoming a “Dasher” in the last several days; perhaps they are just having issues with staffing?