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

291 points jshchnz | 4 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.835s | 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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dazzeloid ◴[02 Jul 25 21:39 UTC] No.44449134[source]▶
he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. the funny thing was that he actually had multiple companies on his linkedin at the same time, including ours. we just thought they must have been internships or something and he never updated them (he felt a bit chaotic). but then it turned out he was working at all of them simultaneously.

worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job (we also let him go when we discovered the multiple jobs)

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nickip ◴[03 Jul 25 10:46 UTC] No.44453662[source]▶
How was he talented? All the stories are the same. "Talented" etc. But then it leads to he never did any work. How can you assess his talent?
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1. thepasswordis ◴[03 Jul 25 17:12 UTC] No.44457180[source]▶
The people assessing his talent are falling for the same delusion as the people conducting the interview.
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2. dragonwriter ◴[03 Jul 25 18:28 UTC] No.44457888[source]▶
If passing their interviews isn't the same as being a good developer, then those people have to not only admit that the people they hire may not be good at the jobs they are hired for but they themselves aren't good at the job they sell themselves as doing. It's obviously easiest to accept an explanation that doesn't require them to reach that conclusion.
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3. skeeter2020 ◴[04 Jul 25 14:37 UTC] No.44464962[source]▶
in fairness to some interview processes there are ways you could legit pass a valid interview and then short change the job. We do a problem scenario / proposed solution that's shared a few days in advance. Good candidates (and good frauds) can ace this with strong technical skills, relevant experience and maybe an hour or so of prep time. We'd take this as strong signal, because (and I'd hope more companies do this) we're optimizing for talented candidates, not minimizing people who are going to work multiple concurrent jobs.
4. georgemcbay ◴[04 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44465953[source]▶
> but they themselves aren't good at the job they sell themselves as doing.

In my opinion and experience, being a competent developer and being a good interviewer are even less related than being a competent developer and being a good interviewee (and the latter are already very unrelated).

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