November 30, 2015 - Global mobile app companies head to Bengaluru seeking top talent

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Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk So, I have been using both Ola and Uber a lot recently, for very different reasons. After enjoying the better cars and service with Uber, it seemed like Uber was on constant 'surcharge' mode. Even late morning and early afternoon rides had 1.5x to 3x 'surcharge' turned on, so I decided it's time to go back to good old Ola for a bit. Two of my recent Ola rides had rickety cars with ACs not working and one of the drivers complaining that he hadn't been paid by Ola for 2 months. Now, that worried me a little bit, because I do want Ola to succeed. The company has gotten into unrelated areas like food delivery. I can only imagine investor pressures and fundraising dynamics behind such premature diversification. The problem of customer service unfortunately is not something that just gets 'solved'. It's a day-in-day-out problem. Take your eyes off the ball and your customers go elsewhere. Get your core business processes right first, that itself will 'expand your market' more than the new products/markets that seem necessary - Comment Digital Global mobile app companies head to Bengaluru seeking top talent Applift, Quixey, Airpush and Glispa check in; offer job opportunities Looking for like-minded folks? Coming Soon All Signal, No Noise!   Advt: Get qualified leads for your business TradeBriefs introduces automated mobile number verification, progressive qualification and other API-based verification. Save time and money! 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