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

319 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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dalemhurley ◴[03 Jul 25 04:56 UTC] No.44451752[source]▶
This is insane, there is a Reddit, of course there is, of almost 500K people, https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ , who discuss all of the strategies to do this.

Just imagine being one of the people who legit joins a startup, is passionate, working long hours, earning your vest, to have your coworker pretending to be working.

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cardanome ◴[04 Jul 25 21:35 UTC] No.44468041[source]▶
This makes no sense. The whole thing is idiotic. Seems to be a combination of LARP and some people trying to push a narrative.

If you really can work multiple jobs, just go freelance. Offer some consulting or whatever. You will earn more and have less stress than juggling multiple jobs.

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ManlyBread ◴[10 Jul 25 11:04 UTC] No.44519617[source]▶
>If you really can work multiple jobs, just go freelance. Offer some consulting or whatever. You will earn more and have less stress than juggling multiple jobs.

You won't earn more. I've considered that at one point and most adverts on freelance sites like Upwork are written by people who are either clueless or downright insane. These people usually want you to create a completely new system from scratch using technologies of their choosing and the offers are like $8-$15 per hour or $800 for work that is supposed to take months to complete. Why would anyone want to agree to do that when apparently getting steady paychecks from multiple companies is an option?

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madamelic ◴[12 Jul 25 19:13 UTC] No.44544313[source]▶
There are other platforms that are not public and require vetting.

Also, most of my contracts have come through referral. It's absolutely possible to survive freelancing as a software engineer.

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1. ManlyBread ◴[17 Jul 25 10:45 UTC] No.44591797{3}[source]▶
So it's no different than landing a regular job if you have no network.