India, June 11 -- A female techie has alleged that the startup she worked for made members of its AI team sleep on the office floor to meet deadlines, then verbally terminated them without notice and refused to pay them their May salaries.

In a Reddit post, the woman, who described herself as a junior machine learning engineer, claimed that the team, made up largely of fresh graduates, was blamed for a failed deployment after weeks of intense work and overnight stays at the office. "We are all fresh graduates who finished our degrees just last year, and we poured everything we had into this role, only to be treated like garbage," the user wrote.

The techie said that the AI team spent much of May 2026 working on computer vision and AI de...