OYO reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(4,955 total reviews)
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Ritesh Agarwal

74% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

OYO has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,955 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The OYO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hotel e acomodações de viagem industry (3.6 stars).

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5K reviews
5.0
Feb 26, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay Mileage reimbursement Flexible day schedule can be home by 12-2:30 to interview for other jobs if you try or start later to have interviews in the morning.

Cons

I would only suggest excepting an offer from Oyo if your unemployment benefits are running out or you continue to aggressively interview for other better opportunities, as the base salary is higher than market average. Trainwreck is an understatement. Zero personal development opportunities other than learning how to talk around important details to get deals. Super aggressive prospecting tactics. Horrible reputation. Even when giving $700k+ to hotel owners to sign people won’t touch Oyo’s branding with a 10 foot pole. Was described as “lipstick on a pig” in training. Leads passed on to your bosses friends and not the proper territory manager. They have ZERO shame in pestering owners past the point of being kicked out of offices. They have been banned from hotel association organizations for aggressive soliciting. If you have morals you will have a hard time working here. Any company that is willing to change any contract term within 15-30 days notice at their discretion is not a reputable org. You’ll be expected to harass business owners 24/5 (weekends off) and mislead them about Oyo’s “wonderful industry leading technology” which is in reality subpar at best. They over hire, and mass fire if you don’t have the desired results in 60 days unless you have befriended your BDH. The CEO is a rich kid who is blindly out of touch with reality. They’ve thrown away hundreds of millions of dollars to attract hotels that are not profitable just for the sake of getting hotels and being the “fastest growing hotel brand”. They give business development managers a bad name. But 75K to pass out brochures and get told how terrible the company is by major and independent hotel owners 6-10x a day who have been in the business 20+ years is not bad at all for a short period of time. The only people who sign with oyo are desperate and on their last leg of operation. For it to be a Indian company, Indian natives want nothing to do with oyo which speaks volumes as this group of people usually stick together at all cost. The biggest lie told in recruitment is that this is a technology company. You might as well believe the earth is flat and time travel is real. This is a dirty motel level franchise with poor ethics on its best day. You’ll notice the momentum that oyo is pushing towards vacation rentals to go more up market, because they have beaten the 1-3 star hotel market to death and have built one of the least desirable brands in history and in the industry.

1.0
Jul 5, 2017
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

1. 'Business leaders' at OYO are great and inspiring. . 2. Company will definitely do good in coming times, might become a unicorn in 1-2 years. . 3. Competetive compensation ( but all your compensation will come in form of salary, Insurance/PF/Stocks are bare minimal, you even have to pay for parking and lunch ).

Cons

1. Tech team do not get enough time or independence to provide creative tech-enabled solutions for business problems. You will not get to learn much about technology as you will be dealing with overwhelming business requests on same technology and a defunct tech management most of the times. . 2. Some EMs do a lot of micro-management. The HR here is just for hiring new people. . 3. The new CTO is smart, but smug and lacks a strong personality. He has surrounded himself with sycophants and only interacts with employees 1-2 levels below him. Compares everything to how 'Amajon' does things. While his vision is big, I never found him inspiring. . 4. Corporate office is far and outside Gurgaon. It is now so crowded, you become part of other teams' meetings even if you do not want to. There is serious space crunch, I had to go out to take some personal calls. There is NO personal space at the office. Forget any fun activities for a respite here. . 5. Very rare lunches/outings(once a year maybe).

1.0
Nov 1, 2019

Predatory company

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I thought this was going to be an interesting start up opportunity with a fast-growing company.

Cons

This review can and should apply to any role within the organization, especially BDM, because it is an inside view into OYO's culture which flows across job titles. My number one con is that the company is unethical and predatory. This is a top-down ethos which reflects on every core area in the business, from sales and contract negotiations, to expansion and talent acquisition, etc. You have no job security with this company, because they have built, and continue to build a reputation for dishonesty. There is no future in that business model. Expect to be held accountable to meeting impossible standards with bare minimum supporting resources. OYO's management treats TA as outsiders and not value-added partners. They expect order takers when the leadership team doesn't know the first thing about giving orders: blind, incompetent, and desperately disorganized. Not to mention they only want to hire young people, and refuse to consider anyone with over 5 years of experience. Maybe that is acceptable in India, but it's illegal in the United States. OYO is begging for an age discrimination lawsuit.

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