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

290 points jshchnz | 3 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source

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?

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bibek_poudel ◴[02 Jul 25 21:24 UTC] No.44449018[source]▶
I read through one of his emails. This guy is great at communicating his interest and signaling himself as a "high performer".

Perhaps, he is also genuinely good at cracking these interviews. No wonder, he's been through so many of them.

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1. mathiaspoint ◴[02 Jul 25 21:45 UTC] No.44449180[source]▶
Interviewing really is a distinct skill from contributing and the more people crank it the more it seems to test for interview ability.
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2. skeeter2020 ◴[04 Jul 25 14:59 UTC] No.44465129[source]▶
I suspect (and have seen some evidence) that the interviews he aced were algo-based. Doing well in these is very repeatable, with low additional effort. Behavioural are much harder to do at scale.
3. ninetyninenine ◴[06 Jul 25 07:05 UTC] No.44478489[source]▶
IQ tests are also distinct skills but IQ scores are the most quantifiable and studied numbers in all of psychology and correlate with all kinds of things like job performance.

I think the purpose of the interview is the same thing. Even though there's no strong evidence for a correlation it's reasonable to believe intuitively that there is.