The death of the Ola Krutrim Engineer by suicide

An employee of Ola Krutrim's Data Science Teams died on May 8, 2025 through suicide, as the company confirmed in a statement

Social media contributions claim that the employee has exposed intensive work-related stress and pressure from seniors about services and goals

The incident takes place in the middle of a series of assignments on a high -ranking level at Bhavish Aggarwal, by Krutrim, with many long -term functional heads being awarded from the company

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Ola Krutrim confirmed in an explanation that an engineer (name retained), part of the company's data science teams, died on May 8 by suicide.

A spokesman for Ola Krutrim stated that the employee was personally permitted at that time and asked for calm at the beginning of April what was granted. The company added that it supported the family and worked with the authorities.

While the company's full explanation used the employee's first name, Inc42 has reduced this proportion from the explanation: “He was on a personal vacation at the time of the incident. On April 8, he turned to his manager and expressed that he had to rest and was immediately granted a personal break. Later on April 17, he announced that he felt better but would benefit from additional calm, and his vacation was expanded accordingly.”

Inc42 also sent questions to Ola Krutrim for allegations in Social media contributions Where the death of the employee was first reported. The speaker did not comment on the same thing.

Ola's poisonous work culture is said to be responsible

In the posts it was claimed that the employee was under severe work -related stress, and answered these contributions seemed to confirm the events.

The article, which was shared anonymously via Reddit, claims that the employee managed an entire project alone after two teammates were terminated. Although he was a fresher, he was supposedly burdened with the responsibility of three employees.

In particular, the contributions to Reddit Rajkiran Panuganti, Ola Krutrims Head of Gen AI Engineering, call him verbal abuse, poor leadership and the emotional neglect of subordinates, in particular when it comes to freshmen. Panuganti has in the USA after its deleted LinkedIn profile. Details of his profile were Captured by x user india_first.

“He only visits the calls, beats people on the left, right and centered and disappeared” Reddit Post claimsAnd added: “Even after this shocking incident, there was no change in behavior.”

Ola Krutrim did not respond to questions about internal systems and mechanisms so that the employees could concern concerns about bullying or work -related stress.

The company did not admit any comments as to whether earlier incidents of workplace toxicity, as claimed in recent years, claimed reporting Restofworld was addressed.

A fleeting search on glass gate And other evaluation portals – or indeed social -media evaluations – paint a worrying picture of the work culture at Ola Krutrim and Ola Electric.

The founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal in particular are said to have broken laptops and other devices in meetings of these things. In another reported case, an employee was allegedly instructed during a visit to the Ola Futurefactory in Tamil Nadu to lead three rounds around the spacious facility as a reference because he had opened a closed input.

The tragic news about the death of the employee comes when Ola Krutrim has a kind of leadership crisis. In the past one year, Ola Krutrim recorded the deductions of Business and Strategy Head Ravi Jain, applied AI director Ashish Kumar and long-time Ola veteran Priyanka Nayak.

A recent report says Connect gaps with management positions.

[Edited By Nikhil Subramaniam]

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