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

290 points jshchnz | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.463s | 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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jasonthorsness ◴[02 Jul 25 21:26 UTC] No.44449035[source]▶
He should pivot to giving talks on landing an interview and interviewing
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Aurornis ◴[03 Jul 25 15:59 UTC] No.44456386[source]▶
You the phrase about how when something becomes a metric it ceases to be a useful measure because everyone starts gaming it?

The same goes for hiring tricks. When some hiring signal becomes a trick that gets passed around by influencers, it ceases to become a useful hiring signal because everyone is gaming it.

If this guy started advertising his process, everyone would start doing his process and it would stop working.

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1. kjkjadksj ◴[04 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44466260[source]▶
You can proselytize all you want for thousands of years and you will never convert the whole world at once.
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2. pxc ◴[04 Jul 25 18:03 UTC] No.44466620[source]▶
It also doesn't matter if his tricks stop being effective if he can still sell them effectively. He doesn't care about integrity, clearly, so that wouldn't be a problem for him.