Ex-Dunzo employee. AMA.

All across the board.

Engineering team was bloated and never understood why there was a need of around 300 engineers (SDE 1 to CTO level) in the first place.

On top of it, the code base is such a mess, and the speed of shipping changes is really slow. They just like to create services and name it after a beverage, add more micro services and repeat. As a result, shipping any change would take 3-4 weeks. Major releases would often take months, which would easily be done in 2 sprints otherwise.

Morale is really low. Many employees have EMIs and Bills to pay and are desperately looking for jobs in this cold market.

Plus, the employees have lost faith in the leadership, which wasn’t the case last year. In most town halls, the leadership team is diplomatic when it came to answering tough questions.

I don’t know about the benefits tbh as I joined during the hiring frenzy of last year after they raised the round from Reliance.

But I did see lack of financial discipline - such as paying for hotels and flight tickets of employees to work from office for few weeks in May when the company was focusing on scaling ops during IPL, and also paying for multiple parties (anywhere from 100-500 people) every other Thursday or Friday at that time, and that too at places like Gawky Goose (which isn’t the cheapest tbh), paying for a standup gig by Rahul Subramanian, and much more which I am probably not even aware of.

Suka suka! I guess if someone dives deep into financial activities, boxes of skeletons may emerge. Sad

From what I am hearing, only thing that can probably make this company survive is if they focus on growing the B2B business, their ONDC coverage and they stop spending any other penny extra on the B2C side of things. Otherwise, there might be a fire sale of the company.

Not related to the topic but how does these things affect your mental health. It’s like working on building a ship and watching it sink

All I can say is we miss Anirban’s leadership more than anything.

I guess it's time for a shakeup at the top.