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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: 0.714s | 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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1. dakiol ◴[04 Jul 25 11:09 UTC] No.44463451[source]▶
The VPs, heads of, and C levels of most of the companies I have worked for were also pretending to be working. They knew the company wasn’t profitable, they gave a couple of advices here and there, and then left the company. Big pay checks. Now they are doing the same all over again in other companies.

Tired of considering this “normal” and nobody talking about it. But when one simple engineer does it, well, it’s unethical, it’s wrong, yada yada.

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2. rpcorb ◴[04 Jul 25 16:35 UTC] No.44465918[source]▶
Get real. There's a difference between a self-proclaimed fraudster and an ineffectual executive. In intention, if not in effect.
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3. kjkjadksj ◴[04 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44466198[source]▶
In as much as there is a difference between a performing magician and one who shows you how a trick is done maybe