OLX Group Reviews

Highly Politicial. Favroitism. People with average technical skills are promoted because of their licking skills. Top management in tech thinks that developers should somehow showcase their talents by talking and prove them (to top management) that they are best. There is a constant need (created from top) to prove yourself. Top do not understand that people have proved that is why they are here. Also top has to prove himself that he is a capable leader. Proving yourself is a two-way game. Otherswise top would get boot lickers only. Top also thinks he is capable of firing people. Thera are few instances in which senior tech members were fired because of attitude/expectations mismatch betweem top and those senior tech guys. Top takes decisions which have no basis, and are not transparent. There is new term coined here, which is become visible. Which basically means, you have to goto to CTO in the morning, stand near his chair, and speak blah blah blah. Or if some production issue happens, dont solve it but stand up and again blah blah blah. Top management is not able to evaluate the quality of work. Top mangement in tech is micromanaging the developers in terms of the number of hours they warm the chair, or cups of tea they have in a day. Tech team has become sought of India Saas Bahu Serials, lots of dramas, nothing concrete. HR team takes decision which are not open.

1. Bad Work Environment - CTO & CPO (Top Management) are busy tracking who is having coffee and sitting on seat or replying blah blah blah in p1 issue group. OLX Ggn used to be a great place to work but ever since new CTO & CPO have joined its become a sad place to work. HR are clueless and have no idea what is really happening in Tech Floor. Being Open used to be value which defined OLX Ggn, Now 'Be Biased' is our core value. Preferential treatment, Dirty Polictics and non transparent decision describe the current work culture. 2. No Respect for Domains other than Backend - If you are a front end developer, QA automation , android / ios dev. Don't join this company. Top management feels only backend knowledge is important. No wonder everyone is leaving this organization or atleast trying to look out. Top management (CPO & CTO) think they can fire anyone and use fear to drive the org. There is a constant need created in every employee even high performers to prove themselves to top management. 3. Biasness & Preference to BootLickers - For good rating , Go to CPO/CTO everyday , talk all kind of blah blah blah and they would think you are doing great work & promote u. Only one team and few special people are given preference and rest don't matter. 4. Ineffective HR - HR is completely clueless.HR should try to understand why people are leaving the organization. Answer is pretty simple - ineffective leaders like CPO & CTO. There is a trust deficit with hr and everyone is afraid that their feedback with be shared with same leaders and they would face the heat. 90% employees feel the same but don't wants to get involved. 5. Micro Management - Top Managment under the umbrella of being aspirational completely micro manage all teams. Full of useless meetings and status updates. How can team be productive if we have 3-4 hr of meeting everyday. 6. Focus on impressing counterparts rather than Product Development - Top Management want to prove themselves to the Global/Argentina Team. They just want to finish things without getting involved in any details. CPO doesn't even know the Product let alone talk about it. CTO obeys everything dictated by CPO and only cares about Backend & Machine Learning.CTO thinks everything else can be done by reading a book and comparing status codes. Summary - Great work place ruined by Top Management (CTO / CPO). I would request other peers to update their experience here. Perhaps HR takes notice and tries to improve the organization.