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

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Post by roll20 »

gargoyle9123 wrote: post #23

We hired Soham. I can tell you it's because he's actually a very skilled engineer. He will blow the interviews completely out of the water. Easily top 1% or top 0.1% of candidates -- other startups will tell you this as well. The problem is when the job (or work-trial in our case) actually starts, it's just excuses upon excuses as to why he's missing a meeting, or why the PR was pushed late. The excuses become more r…

did you notice any hints of him cheating on the interview with LLMs? If he's actually that good for real, I'm surprised why he won't want to do it legit, he'd go way further than scamming people

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

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Post by drewcoo »

the_real_cher wrote: post #33
cududa wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Where is the line between team and cult?

Typically employers pay you and cults don't.

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

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Post by KeplerBoy »

dalemhurley wrote: post #42

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.

There are plenty of people employed at a single job who only pretend to work. That's life.

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

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Post by nickip »

dazzeloid wrote: post #10

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…

How was he talented? All the stories are the same. "Talented" etc. But then it leads to he never did any work. How can you assess his talent?

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

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Post by aaron695 »

the_real_cher wrote: post #15
dazzeloid wrote: post #10

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…

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

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

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Post by data_yum_yum »

Aurornis wrote: post #45
data_yum_yum wrote: post #35

Bigger 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.

The purpose of sharing his name was to warn other companies, not to discuss the story.

That’s an excuse for poor behavior.

Relevant people can share it privately and put out a public warning about obviously noticeable behavioral patterns.

Couple issues here:

1) Sharing it wide open on the Web for the whole world to see and everyone to poke fun of is a massive intrusion.

2) It's also a gateway to bunch of nonsense and false information all over the Internet. Half the stuff I see about this person under allegations, I just don't trust. Not to mention all of a sudden there are tens of impersonators.

3) There are many people with the same name who’s going to get a backlash FYI.

All this is happening too close to people openly talking about what AI researchers are being traded on every social media platform. Idk if any of these people ever wanted to be so famous.

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

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Post by gk1 »

snthpy wrote: post #48
gargoyle9123 wrote: post #23

We hired Soham. I can tell you it's because he's actually a very skilled engineer. He will blow the interviews completely out of the water. Easily top 1% or top 0.1% of candidates -- other startups will tell you this as well. The problem is when the job (or work-trial in our case) actually starts, it's just excuses upon excuses as to why he's missing a meeting, or why the PR was pushed late. The excuses become more r…

Do employment contracts in the US not normally have "sole focus" clauses? We have those in my location.

I don’t think so. Or at most it talks about “reasonable effort” or something vague like that.

/someone who discovered an over-employed person on his team and wondered the same thing

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

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Post by gk1 »

avmich wrote: post #17
the_real_cher wrote: post #15

Earlier 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...

People who practice overemployment delude themselves that multiple jobs doesn’t affect their performance and therefore there’s nothing wrong with working multiple jobs. Their subreddit is a dumbfounding echo chamber.

I had an “over-employed” person on my team (who lied about it) and I can confirm what all others are saying about this guy: they start going AWOL, miss important discussions, miss deadlines, blame their colleagues (creating toxic culture), start doing shoddy work because they’re not thinking deeply through problems and also to keep expectations low, create busywork for others to take the pressure off themselves, use company resources and accounts for other projects (creating security issues, among others)… just to name a few reasons.

It’s not about possessiveness. Many co’s are glad to hire contractors, who don’t “belong” to them.

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