Not worth it, you will make at least 5$ an hour - Driver DoorDash Employee Review

1.0
30 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible Schedule Work your own hours

Cons

I had to quit Doordash because I was making at least 5 dollars an hour and not $21 how they promise and here here's why: 1. Doordash keeps all delivery tips 2. You will never know how much customers tipped you 3. Scheduling is a mess. You schedule yourself to work at a certain city and they sent you to other cities. The problem with this is toll expenses which are not refundable. 4. Parking meter expenses are not refundable. 95% percent of the time you have to put cash in a parking meter to pick up and drop off a customers order. I've met drivers who have gotten $50 - $100 dollar parking tickets while working on orders(which are also not refundable). 5. Gas and mileage expenses are not refundable. 6. You are an independent contractor which means you have to pay taxes on your earnings. You calculate all the expenses and you will be making way below minimum wage.

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Cons

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Pros

You make tips and get to shop at a lot of stores. More areas are open for delivery. You don't go far and have specific zones, like cities, you stay in usually. They give you a special tier of being a Dasher when you're doing the best deliveries, they're called tiers from silver to gold to platinum. Platinum gives you the dash now button allowing you to dash whenever.

Cons

Sometimes the delivery will get marked as if you didn't deliver the item and it gets put on you. There's sometimes drastic waits between orders. The restaurant may be closed or out of the thing the customer ordered. You can't decline order or else the acceptance rating goes down and you'll lose the certain requirements to be a higher tier driver.

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