The CEO of soft bank-supports Ola It reportedly tortured its employees and made them run laps for small mistakes.
What happened: Over two dozen current and former Ola employees have been exposed Bhavish Aggarwal‘s aggressive and aggressive behavior at work in an interview with Bloombergwhich they say has upset boards and managers.
The staff revealed various instances of Aggarwal using Punjabi epithets in teams, telling staff they were useless. The report found that he also ripped up presentations and shortened meetings because he was annoyed with sentence construction, missing page numbers, bent paper clips, or the quality of the printing paper.
Some employees also accused Aggarwal of giving unrealistic deadlines and unscheduled meetings well after midnight, sometimes as late as “1am or 3am”.
In another bizarre incident, Aggarwal is said to have once asked a staff member to run three laps around the extensive grounds Ola future factory because an entrance that was supposed to be open was closed when he visited.
Agarwal has big ambitions for his daughter Ola Electric. earlier this year, follow in the footsteps from Tesla chairman Elon Musk, he decided to retire from day-to-day operations to focus more on engineering functions, team building and products. He wants to build his company to compete with Tesla and others Warren Buffett supports Chinese conglomerate BYD company.
He defended his behavior, telling Bloomberg that anger and frustration is “me as a whole.”
“Passion and emotion run high and we are not on an easy path,” he said. “Not everyone fits into our culture.”
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