India, June 19 -- A Bengaluru startup employee claims he had a complete breakdown after a "brutal" verbal attack from the CEO. In a post shared on Reddit, the employee said he faced constant harassment from the CEO during the few months he spent at the company. The harassment ultimately culminated in video call where the CEO kept yelling "louder and louder" until the employee had a panic attack so severe that he had to be rushed to the hospital.

"I had a complete breakdown during a work video call because my CEO kept screaming," he wrote in his Reddit post.

The employee said he "survived 7 months of relentless psychological harassment at a Bengaluru startup where the non-tech CEO micromanaged everything, imposed unrealistic deadlines, a...