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

290 points jshchnz | 7 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.679s | source | bottom

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. jcadam ◴[04 Jul 25 16:11 UTC] No.44465744[source]▶
Most US citizens applying for software engineering jobs can't even get a response to their resume, and then I read stories like this.
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2. ldjkfkdsjnv ◴[04 Jul 25 16:44 UTC] No.44465993[source]▶
all the jobs are being outsourced is why
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3. y-curious ◴[04 Jul 25 18:17 UTC] No.44466744[source]▶
I'm hoping that the section 174 fix from the latest tax bill will slow this down significantly
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4. TimorousBestie ◴[04 Jul 25 19:26 UTC] No.44467184{3}[source]▶
I’ll be surprised if it does. Software jobs are slumping for several reasons and the section 174 hack fixes one for a while but causes between one to four other problems depending on where you live.
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5. johanyc ◴[04 Jul 25 20:05 UTC] No.44467455{4}[source]▶
One to four other problems? what are they
6. nyarlathotep_ ◴[04 Jul 25 21:17 UTC] No.44467951[source]▶
Yeah, it's really something to read this.
7. firstplacelast ◴[04 Jul 25 21:54 UTC] No.44468141[source]▶
Hiring managers and HR area increasingly only open to unicorn candidates that have the exact amount of experience in the exact tech stack. While a few of those people exist, it's definitely more likely they end up interviewing people that are open to lying. So now your pipeline is filled with 90% liars, some just small white lies and others who have made a resume that has exclusively tailored lies just for your org.

The jobs aren't that hard and many people that fudged their experience are capable, so the liars that are hired perform adequately and hiring team sees no reason to adjust their strategy.

Eventually this gets out-of-hand as people learn to further exploit these practices.