A topsy-turvy ride for Jabong employees after its merger with Myntra

Myntra's leadership team has been systematically cutting down manpower at the firm

It has never been a steady ride for Abhishek Arora (name changed), a senior data scientist at online fashion portal Jabong, since he joined the firm three years back.

In 2015, when Arora joined Jabong, owned by Rocket Internet (a German tech firm), the company was looking at being a potential unicorn or a billion-dollar firm. 

Things, however, started to go haywire soon after as the company incurred massive losses and went on the block looking out for a potential buyer. To increase Arora’s anxiety, a spate of firings in the name of rationalisation happened. In July 2016, Myntra, backed