[HN Gopher] How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
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How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
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?
Author : jshchnz
Score : 23 points
Date : 2025-07-02 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
| revskill wrote:
| No surprise, it's all about the cloud driven interview.
|
| Seriously, a good programmer cares about good abstraction, not
| the correct cloud setup.
|
| Those startups are worth the scam, it's skill issue all the way
| down.
| robswc wrote:
| This is my question too.
|
| I'm no longer job searching but every interview involved multiple
| steps and "background checks."
|
| I'm seeing the dude's resume has him working half a dozen jobs in
| a year which even to me is a huge red flag. Then he has a github
| with automated commits... I don't want to be disparaging to start
| ups because its brutal out there but how does someone like that
| have such a high success rate? Is he taking a super low salary or
| something?
| robswc wrote:
| To add to this. It would be great to see which companies he
| interviewed at but didn't get the job. Would argue those
| companies have better BS-detectors conducting the interviews.
| deepsun wrote:
| Background checks come in different varieties, usually it's
| criminal and global watchlist checks. Employment and education
| check is couple $$ extra for the employer, and some employers
| really don't mind.
| bibek_poudel wrote:
| 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.
| mathiaspoint wrote:
| Interviewing really is a distinct skill from contributing and
| the more people crank it the more it seems to test for
| interview ability.
| ATechGuy wrote:
| Looks like he has cracked the hiring playbook. I wouldn't be
| surprised if Zuck came forward and said they also hired SP for
| their ASI team.
| jasonthorsness wrote:
| He should pivot to giving talks on landing an interview and
| interviewing
| jm20 wrote:
| Odds are this is a dev shop with more than one person doing at
| least some things. It would explain how "he" was able to get so
| many jobs and maintain appearances. And a lot of startups don't
| have the best screening processes to begin with (have a beer with
| a founder, check out their source code, you're hired!). This is
| exactly the place where the structure and processes of larger
| companies can be a benefit. And even then, people work multiple
| jobs and get away with it. It's become popular post COVID.
|
| Given these two factors, I don't think it would be out of the
| realm of possibility for something like this to happen.
| meistertigran wrote:
| Think so too. Also because different companies have different
| "reviews" of his work. Some saying he was only good at
| interviews, others saying the quality of work was good. Must
| have been diffferent people working.
| jonathan-adly wrote:
| Lots of YC companies copy each other process and selection
| criteria. Basically- they all have the same blind spots and look
| for the same type of engineer.
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| So, super easy to scam all of them with the same skillset and
| mannerism.
| dazzeloid wrote:
| 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)
| robswc wrote:
| Did he just lie and say he wasn't working at those places? Or
| did the question never come up?
|
| When I used to interview I always had to check a box that said
| I wasn't currently employed, or they would ask at some point.
| the_real_cher wrote:
| Why would you let him go if he was doing a solid job?
| deepsun wrote:
| Sometimes it's NDA. Depends on what company does, but it's
| hard to imagine a product that does not compete with e.g.
| Google.
| avmich wrote:
| Yeah, this looks like a cargo culting. Don't need work, need
| the guy to belong only to them...
| tuckerpo wrote:
| All anecdotes I see about this dude is: "we hired him and he did
| a fantastic job, but once we found out he had multiple employment
| we fired him".
|
| ... why? If the guy's doing well by all metrics and not leaking
| IP, literally, who cares?
| spwa4 wrote:
| He's not going to get much sympathy. Because:
|
| 1) from the employer side, this runs afoul of all MBA theory
| and practice, so he could have been more profits. Almost by
| definition, this means you're not getting the maximum out of
| the guy. Oh and there's jealousy of course.
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| 2) from employee's side, this runs afoul of union thinking.
| Those jobs could have employed 5 people, maybe more. Oh and
| there's jealousy of course.
| suyash wrote:
| It just shows how most startups don't have a good vetting system
| in place.
| anon_2222 wrote:
| I dont know if you meant technical vetting. But I did a coding
| interview with him. He did poorly and was rejected. BTW the
| recruiter talked him up big time.
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