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    Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

    291 points jshchnz | 11 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.535s | source | bottom

    Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.

    Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

    1. jasonthorsness ◴[02 Jul 25 21:26 UTC] No.44449035[source]▶
    He should pivot to giving talks on landing an interview and interviewing
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    2. occamsrazorwit ◴[03 Jul 25 01:15 UTC] No.44450622[source]▶
    Cluely should reach out to him for a sponsorship deal.
    3. godelmachine ◴[03 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44451525[source]▶
    The Wolf of YC Street.
    replies(2): >>44469554 #>>44477270 #
    4. thisisit ◴[03 Jul 25 08:12 UTC] No.44452779[source]▶
    Exactly my thoughts after listening to founders saying he crushes all the interviews.
    5. Aurornis ◴[03 Jul 25 15:59 UTC] No.44456386[source]▶
    You the phrase about how when something becomes a metric it ceases to be a useful measure because everyone starts gaming it?

    The same goes for hiring tricks. When some hiring signal becomes a trick that gets passed around by influencers, it ceases to become a useful hiring signal because everyone is gaming it.

    If this guy started advertising his process, everyone would start doing his process and it would stop working.

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    6. seydor ◴[04 Jul 25 13:10 UTC] No.44464217[source]▶
    who says he isn't
    7. kjkjadksj ◴[04 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44466260[source]▶
    You can proselytize all you want for thousands of years and you will never convert the whole world at once.
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    8. pxc ◴[04 Jul 25 18:03 UTC] No.44466620{3}[source]▶
    It also doesn't matter if his tricks stop being effective if he can still sell them effectively. He doesn't care about integrity, clearly, so that wouldn't be a problem for him.
    9. asdf6969 ◴[04 Jul 25 19:49 UTC] No.44467341[source]▶
    Not true or else leetcode would be gone. They made a lot of money off the old paradigm and somebody will certainly take advantage of whatever comes next
    10. sathish316 ◴[05 Jul 25 02:04 UTC] No.44469554[source]▶
    Leetcode me if you can
    11. __turbobrew__ ◴[06 Jul 25 02:18 UTC] No.44477270[source]▶
    The Davinci Leetcode