Zomato Reviews

Pros

Compensated traveling fee and lunch

Cons

Alot of traveling and walking

Pros

Great work environment Met new friends They threw us good office parties

Cons

Lots of commuting Not a lot of oppurtunities moving forward

Advice to Management

Keep it up, great temporary job

Pros

Depends on with whom you are working, and what role is provided to you. Very cooperative seniors and understands the organization's situation.

Cons

You are not well informed about the job description during the interview process. Salary paid is less than what they expect.

Pros

Start up spirit gives fever

Cons

Puts all eggs in one basket

Pros

Exciting industry, founders built a great brand but thoughtless in growth execution

Cons

Lack of strategy and planning. Lack of strong executive leadership. All the good ones leave

Advice to Management

Go outside your "loyal" circle to build a strong leadership team

Pros

Excellent tech start-up, very fun work-environment

Cons

Clear separation between full-time employees and temps - higher ups shouldn't make others feel menial or inferior!

Pros

I had the chance to work with some incredibly kind and intelligent people. I wasn't micromanaged much as long as I was meeting targets. Fun office parties every now and then. The atmosphere used to allow you to get a lot of experience in different areas really quickly but that isn't much the case anymore. Depending on the team you worked with, you could have absolutely amazing mentors.

Cons

The cons far outweighed the pros: - Office became hyperpolitical, where you would get passed up for promotions or better projects if you weren't a brown noser. - The work became routine and boring. Even if you expressed interest in doing something else and you were capable of doing that, getting a chance of reassignment largely falls on who you know. - There is 0 work life balance. You are expected to eat,... breath and sleep Zomato. There was a lot of down putting if you chose to take vacation time. Even taking a weekend off was highly frowned upon. There were plenty of people who would end up working on Sundays as well. - For being in an environment where you're realistically working 60hrs plus, your salary rarely matches that. - Transparency is lackluster, and communication between higher management and the rest of the employees winds up mainly relying on who you know. - Struggling business model: Zomato began as an online ad space and developed their transactions based model later. While that is helping bring in revenue, it isn't exactly king as people make it seem. The HSBC report that downgraded Zomato recently brought up fair points and honestly aligned the company better in a sense of how valuable it was. - There is absolutely zero organization, with things changing on the whim of higher ups. Often it felt more like it was being run by a bunch of capricious children being given unlimited funds without any hold on them.

Advice to Management

Please stop calling yourself a start-up, you are a privately held company. Communicate to your employees better, and honestly, act on the transparency that is supposed to be a Zoman value. The townhalls felt repetitive after a while because you wouldn't address real concerns your employees were making. Make your employees actually feel like they're jobs are secure, you'll get more out of them rather than making... them think they could get fired at any moment. Do ACTUAL market research, we wasted a ton of energy and money in markets without any real understanding of the market. Stop trying to make people work how we do in India. It makes absolutely zero sense, Zomato's culture is vague enough to be able to be adopted into other markets but those you send from India to run those markets are honestly the absolute worst ambassadors for zomato. Also, take criticism humbly. You don't need to fight everyone who says something negative about Zomato. You would know this if you hired competent PR people rather than just the yes men that are in the higher ups.

Pros

My coworkers were energetic, fun, and intelligent. Superiors were very encouraging. Startup atmosphere.

Cons

Wasted employee talent by giving these same energetic, fun, and intelligent people mundane jobs. Sent employees into dangerous neighborhoods. A lot of promises were made and none came to fruition. Prided themselves on moving quickly, but rarely thought through consequences of action. Shut down all North American offices

Advice to Management

There's so many things wrong with this company I say shut it down and start over.