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

290 points jshchnz | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | 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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bibek_poudel ◴[02 Jul 25 21:24 UTC] No.44449018[source]▶
I read through one of his emails. This guy is great at communicating his interest and signaling himself as a "high performer".

Perhaps, he is also genuinely good at cracking these interviews. No wonder, he's been through so many of them.

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alpb ◴[03 Jul 25 19:32 UTC] No.44458423[source]▶
this email? https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745
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mpeg ◴[04 Jul 25 14:01 UTC] No.44464662[source]▶
That's a particularly terrible cold email, you can tell he didn't even bother applying some basic personalisation to it outside of [COMPANY_NAME]
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sreekanth850 ◴[04 Jul 25 15:05 UTC] No.44465189[source]▶
Nutshell: Toxic founders who want developers to code 24X7 may hired him seeing this.
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anon_2222 ◴[04 Jul 25 18:24 UTC] No.44466786[source]▶
ding ding ding. both soham + recruiter implied he basically just codes day and night. our founder (yc) was drooling! there's a very specific type of company + founder that falls for this stuff. no surprise he targeted ai startups.
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1. sreekanth850 ◴[05 Jul 25 02:43 UTC] No.44469747[source]▶
Yes, this is probably what happened. Not like he was a super human engineer.