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

291 points jshchnz | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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oh_fiddlesticks ◴[04 Jul 25 09:22 UTC] No.44462790[source]▶
What is the difference between this and leadership being in the committees, boards and executive seats of multiple companies?

Why is it the social expectation that an IC must devote 100% of their time and energy to the operations of a single company, when their senior leadership often manages their time between the affairs of many companies in their purview?

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nottorp ◴[04 Jul 25 09:30 UTC] No.44462859[source]▶
Incidentally, why aren't there more part time positions?

Probably because said leadership would then be unable to keep their employees in meetings since they're supposed to do some actual work once in a while.

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1. aleph_minus_one ◴[04 Jul 25 09:56 UTC] No.44463038[source]▶
> Incidentally, why aren't there more part time positions?

It is obviously easier to manage a small group of people who work full-time than a larger group of people who work part-time. So, if there does not exist a strong wish for part-time positions from the employees, few will be created.

Also, a lot of employees are there "for the money". So getting paid much worse for a part-time position is considered to be the worse deal by many employees.