[windowsrookie]

Requiring the engineer to actually use the product they are working on in real life is good. Maybe it can help make the experience better for the dashers, the restaurants, and the company.

That $400,000/yr engineer makes more money in a day than a DoorDash worker makes in 2 weeks working full time. I do not feel any sympathy for the 1 dash they will have to make a month.

[falcolas]

Since I first heard about this, this is what I pictured in my head:

Alex: I’m headed to Bob’s for some lunch. Want anything?

Tory: Sure. Hey, let me put in a DD order for it.

Alex: Sweet, that’s this month down…

[VWWHFSfQ]

what does the engineers salary have to do with anything

[windowsrookie]

"what does the engineers salary have to do with anything"

The engineers salary (actually total compensation, not salary) was quoted in the article.

"An engineer with a reported total compensation, or TC, of $400,000 a year griped about the responsibility of having to do a once-a-month delivery. “What the actual f—k?” the engineer wrote on the platform. “I didn’t sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.”"

I am suggesting that if you make $400,000 a year, one minor inconvenience a month by actually using the product you are working on really isn't something you should complain about.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

What if the engineer doesn't have a car or a disability? That would be a problem, if it's not on contract

[Brian_K_White]

Addressed in the article you must not have read yet somehow have opinions on.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Nope, sorry, i read only the first part. Thanks for addressing that

[azinman2]

That’s clearly not the issue at hand.

[asimpletune]

That they get paid a lot? And sometimes it’s to deliver groceries.

[wiseowise]

Getting paid a lot means you can demand anything now?

[Volundr]

It's not exactly anything. It's actually using the product they are developing. Is that really so crazy?

While not exactly the same, we were responsible for developing an in-house app used by our retail employees. Every single engineer working on the app would every so often shadow one of these employees to see firsthand how it was being used in the real world.

[dymk]

Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it. They’re not being asked to scrub toilets, they’re being asked to exercise the company’s product. The thing that pays their salary.

Let’s see how many actually quit over this. My guess is few to none.

[wiseowise]

> Yeah, and they can quit and work somewhere else that’ll pay them just as well if they don’t like it.

I think that's the main sentiment in those threads and the main response to that is "oh woe how dare you think like that, you prima donna".

[todd3834]

Another thing to consider is one less dash, per employee, available for the dashers who might need the money. Perhaps there are not enough to be significant but if you dash by the office I bet you’ll notice.

[felipellrocha]

One less dash hardly makes a difference, but you benefit from the engineer feeling the experience first-hand by dog fooding the product.

[todd3834]

Multiply by the number of employees mostly saturated in a radius around the office. Perhaps still not a big impact but surely noticeable if that's your neighborhood.

[xtiansimon]

400,000 / 52 = 7692.31 More like a month, if the dasher is lucky