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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: 0.207s | 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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dev_l1x_be ◴[04 Jul 25 09:42 UTC] No.44462943[source]▶
The moral of the story is that the current interviewing process is easy to cheat for people like him.
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1. aleph_minus_one ◴[04 Jul 25 10:04 UTC] No.44463078[source]▶
Rather, since by basic economy markets are controlled by incentives:

He is the kind of person that companies actually want. (Otherwise these companies would have set up a different interviewing process (i.e. different incentives)).

:-)