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

290 points jshchnz | 9 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.018s | 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. tuckerpo ◴[02 Jul 25 21:42 UTC] No.44449163[source]▶
All anecdotes I see about this dude is: "we hired him and he did a fantastic job, but once we found out he had multiple employment we fired him".

... why? If the guy's doing well by all metrics and not leaking IP, literally, who cares?

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2. spwa4 ◴[02 Jul 25 21:46 UTC] No.44449188[source]▶
He's not going to get much sympathy. Because:

1) from the employer side, this runs afoul of all MBA theory and practice, so he could have been more profits. Almost by definition, this means you're not getting the maximum out of the guy. Oh and there's jealousy of course.

2) from employee's side, this runs afoul of union thinking. Those jobs could have employed 5 people, maybe more. Oh and there's jealousy of course.

3. thomassmith65 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:14 UTC] No.44450616[source]▶
This shouldn't come as a revelation, but it's risky to employ people of low character. There's the risk of theft, lawsuits, etc – not to mention, nobody needs the frustration of dealing with lies and flakiness.
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4. soneca ◴[03 Jul 25 04:50 UTC] No.44451716[source]▶
I saw several anecdotes that were: “when he did the job, it was great, but he rarely did the job because there was always someone sick, meeting with a lawyer, or any excuse to not deliver”.

So I think that finding about multiple employment is actually about realizing he was lying the whole time with the excuses.

5. Aurornis ◴[03 Jul 25 05:53 UTC] No.44452043[source]▶
None of the anecdotes I saw say that.

All of them say he did good work when he was working, but it was obvious that he was trying to do it as a part-time job.

6. karel-3d ◴[04 Jul 25 05:04 UTC] No.44461262[source]▶
We had a guy like that... the thing is you cannot really pass any responsibility on him because he will eventually be distracted with other stuff. You will never know when you have him 100%. You don't want to keep checking on your employees week by week day by day, if they deliver.

You need some degree of trust in your employees (you cannot "verify" all the time), and you cannot trust some guy you KNOW is cheating on you.

7. rpcorb ◴[04 Jul 25 16:41 UTC] No.44465962[source]▶
Wrong. Many anecdotes say, "He was scamming us in the first week."
8. ls-a ◴[05 Jul 25 13:42 UTC] No.44472755[source]▶
Then fire the CEOs, lawyers, investors, and top management with low character.
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9. thomassmith65 ◴[06 Jul 25 05:12 UTC] No.44478015{3}[source]▶
I suppose, in that case, it's risky to employ people of lower character than the people managing them.