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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: 0.418s | 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. asdf6969 ◴[04 Jul 25 19:52 UTC] No.44467361[source]▶
There aren’t formal part time positions but there’s a lot of jobs that only occupy half your full time and don’t ask questions when you disappear for a few hours