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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: 0.623s | 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?

1. nottorp ◴[04 Jul 25 09:26 UTC] No.44462828[source]▶
I wonder... did any of those simultaneous jobs consider him a bad performer?

Did any of those simultaneous jobs even have someone who could evaluate their technical employees based on what they do and not signaling?

What I don't understand is why he updated his public profiles with all those simultaneous jobs..

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2. VoidWhisperer ◴[04 Jul 25 09:55 UTC] No.44463028[source]▶
My understanding from what I saw on twitter about this yesterday was that a number of the companies that did hire him ended up firing him very quickly soon after, I think
3. iamwil ◴[04 Jul 25 09:59 UTC] No.44463062[source]▶
Yes. He'd commit code once a week or so, and then make excuses on why he couldn't do more. They're fire him after a couple months, and by then, he'd have gotten the money.