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

    291 points jshchnz | 11 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | 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. isatty ◴[05 Jul 25 01:34 UTC] No.44469445[source]▶
    The amount of people saying “yeah he’s a great engineer” with the only supporting piece of evidence being “he cracked our leetcode interviews” is bonkers.
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    2. ls-a ◴[05 Jul 25 13:39 UTC] No.44472728[source]▶
    I wish he was never caught. The companies deserved that
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    3. pwthornton ◴[05 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44473260[source]▶
    “He’s a great engineer.”

    “Also, he never shipped anything good.”

    Hiring is completely broken in a lot of tech. Getting the right companies on your resume early on — regardless of your skills — makes you a made person. And then if you know how to game interviews, you’ll be double made.

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    4. burnt-resistor ◴[05 Jul 25 22:21 UTC] No.44476062[source]▶
    It's the surest signals of overrated candidates who lead with egos rather than results and an overrated hiring process with easily-fooled people who can't see it.
    5. burnt-resistor ◴[05 Jul 25 22:23 UTC] No.44476069[source]▶
    @sama's Triple Byte ostensibly tried to "solve" this and did nothing but make it worse. As a candidate, they lied to me saying "I had the 'best' score ever on their screening process". Ironically, I ended up at Meta where the interviewing process is somewhat like Google's but now even more difficult technically.
    6. lexarflash8g ◴[06 Jul 25 01:55 UTC] No.44477143[source]▶
    Realize that a lot of candidates who followed the rules and told the truth were screwed out of jobs. Right now there are massive layoffs and lots of good people are out of jobs and this guy is being praised by sticking it to “corporate greed”?

    Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?

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    7. swores ◴[06 Jul 25 11:13 UTC] No.44479688{3}[source]▶
    > "Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?"

    You say that like you're unaware that huge numbers of people (I doubt anywhere near a majority, but significant numbers certainly) DO think that he is a hero who deserves to be pardoned.

    For a quick example, see https://x.com/search?q=Free%20luigi&src=typed_query

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    8. ls-a ◴[06 Jul 25 13:35 UTC] No.44480691{3}[source]▶
    Wow that escalated quickly. I'm just saying why would an engineer who's been rewarded a seat at a company based on his leetcode abilities think that the company cares about anything else.
    9. gfdujdufituj ◴[06 Jul 25 14:28 UTC] No.44481102{4}[source]▶
    I wouldn't call far-left terrorists "people".
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    10. Eisenstein ◴[06 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44481601{5}[source]▶
    I'm sure you would be in good company with them, as you have also given up morality in order to dehumanize those to whom you are opposed.
    11. jxjnskkzxxhx ◴[06 Jul 25 20:43 UTC] No.44483874{3}[source]▶
    If there were more like him, powerful people would be less unhinged.