About as pleasant as a third trimester abortion - Business Development Manager OYO Employee Review

1.0
6 Apr 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Solely the pay. They will bait you in for sure, but it won't last long as you will either get laid off under the guise that it is due to some sort of performance issue. Whatever you do, please do not quit an established job to voluntarily enter this dumpster fire.

Cons

I wouldn't even know where to start, but here goes. I'll go in chronological order. My experience started with interviewing with a gentleman that was the head of business development who extended me an offer only to find out that he would quit a couple days later because he saw the writing on the wall. Then, you go to training class where you later find out that everything that they are going over will be null and void within a few weeks. Not to mention that I was in a training class with 27 people of which 9 survived the first round of mass layoffs within the first month. Seriously, training was over December 13th and by January 10th, everyone was asking why they got a direct deposit on their off pay week. It turns out that they paid everyone their last check before they even let them know that they were all being let go. That was at least half the US workforce. As if that isn't bad enough, when I finally have someone that agrees to take a serious proposal meeting, it was the most unprofessional and embarrassing meeting of my whole sales career. The management didn't take me seriously and showed no sense of urgency to push the deal over the finish line. By the time they realized that I was on to something, the company changes the terms of the contract to which the customer scoffed at understandably so. They would not honor the original terms of the proposal that I made within a week a of me making the presentation. It was one of the most humiliating moments in my career and I was trying to do everything to mitigate the hit to my reputation. So now, I try to push forward, but the new terms of the contract make it more or less so that there is no value to the customer other than having the privilege of having the OYO name on their independently owned hotels to which they would usually tell me to kick rocks. I kept pushing along and had another deal that was looking promising only to find out now that the state that I'm in has caught wind of the shady OYO practices and is requiring OYO to halt all business and amend their contracts. Amidst not having a contract to present potential prospects. Now corona virus happens, they decide to fire another large portion of the US workforce after we were assured that they would not. This occured on April 1st of all days LOL! OYO is by the far the biggest April Fool's joke possible.

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