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Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by another_twist »

symbogra wrote: post #37
hussachai wrote: post #32

> I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. Why bother using library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop if he doesn't care anymore? Why give out the biggest clue, which is the time of his resignation letter? If the story is real, this company is a straight-up scammer waiting for t…

It's the biggest clue that it's typical reddit brained fanfic.

What about the claims though ? I dont see the point of getting hung up on just this and discrediting the rest of the story. Tbf this proves nothing without more confirmations however it might be possible to design client side A/B tests to catch this type of behaviour. Might be something NYT or some group with a well resourced investigative arm could pull off.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Towaway69 wrote: post #46
bb88 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also possible he lied about his end date to throw suspicion off. Or he may be still working for the company and used someone else's resignation to pin the blame on them.

Maybe “he” is a “she” - quite right what you say, there’s no reason to believe their details. I would say what they describe about their employer is probably true. I’ve had similar experience of companies making every last buck off their “human assets” but thats how profit works: you take money off others in exchange for promised benefits.

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Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by pixelpoet »

g-b-r wrote: post #71
5701652400 wrote: post #40

true. ex-SWE at major food delivery app here. those places are very, very, very toxic.

uhm, 13 people upvoted the single comment of this newly created account

HN is recently absolutely chock full of brand new accounts agreeing with and upvoting each other. The "new" section is repo after repo created a handful minutes ago with AI slop.

I imagine this is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by ta-eleph-pants »

galkk wrote: post #66

I can believe in each fact individually, but altogether (and that the author has exposure to all of that) it feels like just a rage bait. Here are red flags for me: 1. Priority delivery. Thanks to zepbound I order delivery much less, but when I did (doordash/uber eats/grubhub) the priority delivery proposition was not about dispatch but about routing: driver going straight to your house, without any intermediate stop…

> The emotionally manipulative things like “pay the rent”, “tip theft”

Those are accurate descriptions of what's going on.

> With all the modern corporate doublespeak trainings, there is 0 chance that something would be called “desperation score” in us business.

Not at all unrealistic. These are meant to be internal.

> (unions, your delivery guy homeless)

When was the last time you took an Uber? They don't smell that well, and it's a known fact _a lot_ of drivers live in their cars.

> Again, Instacart, for example, says that 100% of tip goes to driver. If it’s not, they just painting crazy big target on their backs.

This only means that the entire tip amount goes to the driver, which is accurate. It doesn't preclude their other sources of revenue from being reduced, as described by OP.

> but that one guy has exposure to all of that, I doubt it.

Very plausible he/she does. I worked for a similar company and as a software engineer of no particular rank I had access to everything, incl. code, documents describing features, cross-team meetings where those were discussed, etc. I also had friends across the teams who would talk about what they are working on all the time.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by whatever1 »

Lyft is also a scam for the drivers. In a ride from the airport to home during rush hour (1h and 15 minutes drive) I got charged ~$140. The company was paying, so whatever.

During the ride I was chatting with the driver, and I was curious how much he was making from the ride.

At the end of the ride he showed me. $48 (before my tip). WTF.

From that he had to pay gas, maintenance and taxes.

How is this legal? What is the marginal cost for Lyft per mile driven? It must be close to zero. Insane.

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