Flexible hours but pay varies and involves lots of driving - Independent Contractor DoorDash Employee Review

3.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Set your own hours. You see parts of the city you would never get access to otherwise. It's something a bit different every day. Lots of time to listen to music in the car if you enjoy that.

Cons

Variable pay. You have to accept subpar orders sometimes/work with the algorithm to keep your points high enough to keep getting good orders. Lots of driving, obviously.

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5.0
May 13, 2026
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Pros

Flexible work schedule when you want

Cons

Hard grind to get real money

3.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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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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