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

291 points jshchnz | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | 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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KeplerBoy ◴[03 Jul 25 08:57 UTC] No.44453035[source]▶
There are plenty of people employed at a single job who only pretend to work. That's life.
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1. tuckerpo ◴[03 Jul 25 19:59 UTC] No.44458666[source]▶
Anecdotally I'd argue that it's not just "plenty", but the majority of people who only work one single job barely and/or pretend to work. I regularly see Principal+ engineers, VPs and Directors waddling around looking important or just staring at their monitors with a glazed over look.

Most corporations don't need nearly as many employees as they actually have, so if you can deliver exceptional results in 20 hours, why not dedicate the remaining 20 hours to another corp, and double your comp? Everyone wins.

HackerNews dudes claiming they do a true minimum 40 hours per week, every week, forever, of heads-down hard-work are deluding themselves. I really don't understand the overemployment hatred this forum has. There are plenty of folks who really do solid work at 2+ jobs, not half-assing and politicking.

Disclaimer: I am not OE.

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2. Finnucane ◴[04 Jul 25 14:45 UTC] No.44465019[source]▶
This is why there’s a push to the four day workweek. People get just as much done, they just use their time more efficiently.