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

291 points jshchnz | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.449s | 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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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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1. 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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2. 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.