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

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)

Why would you let him go if he was doing a solid job?

Yeah, this looks like a cargo culting. Don't need work, need the guy to belong only to them...

It’s called team building. You can believe in it or not. You can join a company that values that, or not.

Where is the line between team and cult?

Cults are a subset of teams.

Why do you need to draw a line? Can there be good cults and bad teams?

Both have implicit contracts, and a contract requires consideration on both sides. The parties define the value of the consideration, so you can have a junior cult member who feels they are getting good value for what they pay, or a SW dev at an insurance company who feels they don't. I also don't see much difference in your ability to affect your situation if you are unhappy with the current state.