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

291 points jshchnz | 3 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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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dalemhurley ◴[03 Jul 25 04:56 UTC] No.44451752[source]▶
This is insane, there is a Reddit, of course there is, of almost 500K people, https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ , who discuss all of the strategies to do this.

Just imagine being one of the people who legit joins a startup, is passionate, working long hours, earning your vest, to have your coworker pretending to be working.

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1. gk1 ◴[03 Jul 25 12:29 UTC] No.44454312[source]▶
Every manager and employer should skim through that subreddit. When I stumbled onto it I felt like Bruce Willis at the end of The Sixth Sense, where the truth was revealed and every flashback moment suddenly made sense and lined up. Until then, things just felt “off” but it was hard to put a finger on what was actually going on.
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2. swah ◴[03 Jul 25 18:31 UTC] No.44457917[source]▶
I guess impromptu Slack huddles work for quickly finding this out in the first weeks...
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3. smilebot ◴[05 Jul 25 19:38 UTC] No.44474992[source]▶
Only when all jobs do this at the same time.