In a personal, direct LinkedIn post addressed to former Zomato employees, Deepinder Goyal issued an unusually candid invitation: come back. Whether someone left by choice or was asked to leave, Goyal wrote, the door isn’t closed and he wants a conversation.
“I’m not holding onto the past,” he said in the post. “I want you back.”
The note is framed less like a corporate hiring pitch and more like a reconciliation message to people who once considered the company home. Goyal acknowledged that Zomato may not have offered “the environment, or the leadership” some employees needed at the time. But he also leaned into an emotional truth many alumni of intense, high-growth workplaces recognise: leaving doesn’t always mean you stop caring.
“Second and third stints” and a company that’s “a little less chaotic”
A key line in the post points to a pattern Goyal says is already underway inside Eternal: rehiring boomerang talent.
“We have over four hundred people at Eternal today in their second or third stints,” he wrote, adding that many are doing their “best work now.” He attributed that not only to people growing over time, but also to the company itself maturing “more organised,” “a little less chaotic” and suggested he has learned along the way too.
The message is notable for what it admits: that earlier phases weren’t ideal for everyone, and that leadership and environment mattered. It’s also notable for what it implies: Eternal believes returning employees can help raise the bar, because they “already know what good looks like here.”
A “family of companies,” as listed in Deepinder Goyal’s post
Goyal positioned Eternal as broader than a single brand, describing it as “a family of companies.” In the post, he listed:
- Zomato
- Blinkit Quick-Commerce
- Blinkit Ambulances
- District
- Hyperpure
- Nugget
- Feeding India
He wrote that there is “so much to build” across this group—and that the next phase requires people who “care enough to fight for it.”
“I am not the CEO anymore”, but “I am still very much here”
One of the post’s more striking sections addresses a likely hesitation: would returning feel different now?
“You might say that Eternal is not going to be the same, because I am not the CEO anymore,” Goyal wrote, before arguing that titles were never the point at Eternal. His reassurance is simple: he remains involved and wants alumni to be part of what comes next.
A direct call to action: email him
Rather than routing interested candidates to a careers portal, Goyal ended with a personal invitation: “Write to me at [email protected].” He also added a line that reads like an insider wink to anyone who has lived the Gurgaon grind: “The Gurgaon pollution is still a bug, but being at Eternal is the feature.”
He closed by urging people not to overthink it and offered to “find a role that fits your life as it is today.”
It’s rare to see a business leader publicly address former employees with this level of openness especially while acknowledging that the workplace may have fallen short for some people earlier. The post doesn’t promise perfection. Instead, it makes a specific argument: people and companies change, and returnees can thrive in the new version.
And it makes the pitch in plain language, not HR-speak: if you feel like you have unfinished business, come talk.
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