Unlimited leaves and meals: Indonesia's Go-Jek woos India talent

Go-Jek said it has also created a blend of an open workspace to foster collaboration as well as a soundproof office area, which offers privacy to help employees focus on their work

Keto meals, personalised workspaces, airport pickups and drops, unlimited sick leaves, and casual leaves that don’t need any approvals — Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek is leaving no stone unturned in wooing talent for its India engineering centre. 

Google and Tencent-backed Go-Jek, whose value was calculated at $10 billion by US research firm CB Insights, placing it in the ranks of start-ups called decacorns, is expecting to hire over 500 people in the next five years for its engineering centre in the country. These mainly include engineers, product managers, designers, researchers and data scientists.

“I jokingly tell my (colleagues) that it needs to