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

291 points jshchnz | 5 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.972s | 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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altairprime ◴[04 Jul 25 09:24 UTC] No.44462805[source]▶
I did two full-time jobs for a month as part of changing jobs fifteen years ago and it’s exceedingly intense but otherwise was fine; eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have. Employers don’t like this because that’s a lot of work they could have persuaded an employee to provide as unpaid overtime labor instead; much this outrage is simple jealousy. If you’re doing the job to the specifications requested at a sufficient level to remain employed, then they have no basis to cry outrage. Employment is just as monogamous as marriages are: sometimes, not always.
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1. liotier ◴[04 Jul 25 09:42 UTC] No.44462944[source]▶
> eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have

Lol - you don't have enough hobbies.

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2. altairprime ◴[04 Jul 25 16:28 UTC] No.44465864[source]▶
Turns out I prefer some of my hobbies to benefit other people’s goals, which is often sated by employment.
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3. isatty ◴[05 Jul 25 01:31 UTC] No.44469431[source]▶
Isn’t this just a cringey way to say you prefer your hobbies to make money.
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4. altairprime ◴[05 Jul 25 20:46 UTC] No.44475417{3}[source]▶
No? If I meant that, I would have said that. My current hobby that benefits others is reverse engineering something. I have no revenue plans or pathway for that effort, it’s been underway for five years, and it’s keeping my need to help occupied as I go through full-time school.
5. mock-possum ◴[06 Jul 25 06:20 UTC] No.44478285[source]▶
Seriously, I can’t remember the last time I was bored as an adult - the times I was bored as a kid, it was because adults were making be somewhere or do something that wasn’t engaging.

I literally have a computer at hand 24/7 now, I’m almost never bored. It’s kinda crazy to think about much of a change that is.