Employees at Ola Electric have spoken out against what they call their company's "hostile" work culture, referring to the way co-founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal behaves.

According to over two dozen former and current workers who preferred to stay anonymous for fear of reprisal the CEO ripped up presentations due to a missing page number, directed Punjabi epithets at staffers, and called the team "useless."

Some executives even said that Aggarwal would lose his cool over a sentence in a memo, a crooked paper clip, or even the printing paper's quality.

When asked about his management style, the CEO quipped that not everyone is fit for the company's culture, adding that there is no world standard for an 'even, sterile work environment.'

The disgruntled employees told Bloomberg that retention was a problem and some executives decided not to join Ola Electric days after formally accepting employment offers. A former business head who is no longer with the company told the website that the expectations were like having to run a marathon like a world's greatest athlete Usain Bolt. 

The employees cited an incident when Bhavish Aggarwal ordered a custodial manager to run three laps around the massive electric two-wheeler plant only because the shuttered entryway was closed.

Around three dozen executives who work at Ola Electric and ride-hailing operations company ANI Technologies, have quit the company within 1-2 years of joining. 

In an interview last month at Ola Electric's headquarters in Bengaluru, Aggarwal had said that passions and emotions run high and ‘we are not on an easy journey’.  “But I don’t want to choose an easier journey for myself or for Ola. My anger, my frustration — that’s me as a whole", he had remarked.