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Ex-Dunzo employee. AMA.
Since I am Done-Zo with Dunzo, AMA anything. Here to spill all the scoop that’s happened.
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Since I am Done-Zo with Dunzo, AMA anything. Here to spill all the scoop that’s happened.
Majorly tech and product affected?
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.
How has the situation mentally affected the employees there?
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 heard there was 1-2 secondaries during the 200mil round. Did folks benefit decently including founders?
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
Is there any way Dunzo can get out if this mess ? And make it.
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
Haven't heard about an acquisition or new fundraise. What is next for Dunzo?
Curious to know how they are surviving and for how long? have the people who left recd thier pending dues? Current ones recieving thier salaries? Are they still trying to convince Reliance to save them?
Dunzo gonna do layoffs today in all hands around noon. Most of Managers and senior devs will be impacted including couple of DOEs
