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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: 0s | 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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dazzeloid ◴[02 Jul 25 21:39 UTC] No.44449134[source]▶
he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. the funny thing was that he actually had multiple companies on his linkedin at the same time, including ours. we just thought they must have been internships or something and he never updated them (he felt a bit chaotic). but then it turned out he was working at all of them simultaneously.

worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job (we also let him go when we discovered the multiple jobs)

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nyarlathotep_ ◴[04 Jul 25 21:19 UTC] No.44467965[source]▶
> he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews.

Think it says a lot about this industry if "really talented 'engineer'" means passing loads of gamified interviews and not delivering things on time.

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StackRanker3000 ◴[04 Jul 25 21:56 UTC] No.44468159[source]▶
But the person you’re responding to said he did a solid job for almost a year.
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pwthornton ◴[05 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44473287{3}[source]▶
That’s pretty faint praise.
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1. dazzeloid ◴[05 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44473661{4}[source]▶
He was a solid middle of the pack contributor on net, but it was clear he was way stronger than his net output just from interactions with him (he had great products ideas, clear technical understanding of many areas, etc).