Online food delivery platform Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal recently revealed his company’s hiring policy. While talking with the popular YouTuber Ranveer in his ‘The Ranver Show’, Goyal said the company does not hire people who are looking for jobs.
“The kind of workforce we hire is very different. Ideally, we don’t hire people who are looking for jobs. The kind of people we need, they don’t search for jobs.
He also stated that the company looks for good people, approaches them, and then works on them, especially when it comes to mid and senior-level hiring.
Being asked on his company hires as it upgrades at every stage, the Zomato chief said, “It’s better to grow from within. Zomato is 15 years old. We have enough people who are 5-6 years old in the system. In such a case, the context gets changed. If we were a two-year-old company, we had no choice but to get external hires but now if I have to bring someone from outside, either I have to be very sure that he’s really good or that he has a unique skill,” Mr Goyal stated.
While elaborating the challenges of hiring from outside, Goyal explained, “If I hire from outside, it will take six months to bring someone. First, you’ll interview for three months. Then he’ll have to serve three months’ notice period in his previous organisation. He’ll join in six months and there’ll be induction for three months. Then, after a year’s time you’ll know his performance. That way, you’ve lost two years. It’s easier for me to pick someone from the inside, spend three months growing him/her and put him in that role. He/she knows the business and that works.”
Commenting on the GenZ workforce, Goyal opined, “GenZ’s are way smarter than we were at that age and the potential is huge”. However, Mr Goyal also added that GenZs have less patience, “and patience is a virtue which is required at work,”
