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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
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Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#34This 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…
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.
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Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#35Bigger question is do you think he really wants everyone on the Internet targeting him one way or another?
Why didn't he get the option to remain an anonymous scandal?
We don't need to know his name to discuss his actions.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#36Because why would you expect startup hiring process to be good?
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#37The problem is YC is the guild of copycats
If you write something for one startup, you can use it in other startups too
So, some people like him fit easily for them all
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#38He should pivot to giving talks on landing an interview and interviewing
The Wolf of YC Street.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#39This 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…
For my last job — the guy who was supposed to verify my permanent address called me and asked me to ask someone in my village to take a photo of the house with same day newspaper in the view and send it to him. I forwarded the request to my future employer asking whether it was the normal verification procedure :-)
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#40I don’t know him, but I did once have a staff member who was kind of the same. Nothing ever got delivered, their dad, mum, aunty, grandmother was always in hospital. They never came into the office. They always had their camera off. When they did do something, it was brilliant but they only produced stuff when questions were being asked. Other staff would cover for him as sort of an unspoken rule.