[10] He began his career with Microsoft, where he worked for two years, filed two patents and published three papers in international journals.

[12] In a webinar addressed to the students of Bennet University, Bhavish said that the COVID-19 pandemic was about to accelerate the innovations in technologies.

[15] In 2022, Bhavish was criticized for creating a toxic work environment, with reports of him tearing up presentations over missing page numbers, using Punjabi epithets, and making an employee run laps for a minor mistake.

[16] He defended his 'hostile' behaviour as his personal style and reportedly said that, "passions and emotions run high and we are not on an easy journey."

Need to know where to draw the line in following the west blindly!He termed the use of preferred gender pronouns as a "western illness", which caused an online backlash from some on X with some users labelling him as homophobic, transphobic and conservative.

[28][29] LinkedIn removed his posts on "gender illness" citing community guidelines,[30] following which Ola Consumer switched cloud services from Microsoft Azure.