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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?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

dragonwriter wrote: post #81
roll20 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> 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 If you can get and hold dozens of concurrent full-time engineering jobs by scamming people, you can get much further much more quickly than is possible in any one of the full-time engineering jobs you can get. This is obviously unethical, relies on non-guaranteed success, and falls apart if…

> effectively claw back your gains from scamming

Do you really think several busy startups are going to band up and sue a person (esp in California)?

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

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Post by karel-3d »

tuckerpo wrote: post #11

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?

We had a guy like that... the thing is you cannot really pass any responsibility on him because he will eventually be distracted with other stuff. You will never know when you have him 100%. You don't want to keep checking on your employees week by week day by day, if they deliver.

You need some degree of trust in your employees (you cannot "verify" all the time), and you cannot trust some guy you KNOW is cheating on you.

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

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Post by oh_fiddlesticks »

What is the difference between this and leadership being in the committees, boards and executive seats of multiple companies?

Why is it the social expectation that an IC must devote 100% of their time and energy to the operations of a single company, when their senior leadership often manages their time between the affairs of many companies in their purview?

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

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Post by altairprime »

I did two full-time jobs for a month as part of changing jobs fifteen years ago and it’s exceedingly intense but otherwise was fine; eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have. Employers don’t like this because that’s a lot of work they could have persuaded an employee to provide as unpaid overtime labor instead; much this outrage is simple jealousy. If you’re doing the job to the specifications requested at a sufficient level to remain employed, then they have no basis to cry outrage. Employment is just as monogamous as marriages are: sometimes, not always.

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

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Post by nottorp »

I wonder... did any of those simultaneous jobs consider him a bad performer?

Did any of those simultaneous jobs even have someone who could evaluate their technical employees based on what they do and not signaling?

What I don't understand is why he updated his public profiles with all those simultaneous jobs..

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