> He estimated that he was bringing in $30,000 to $40,000 per month
Doesn't sound like "extremely dire financial circumstances" to me...
Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
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#112What 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?
You've answer your own question. If you are hired to work full-time you are expected to do that (as per your contract). If you are on a board or committee the expectation is a number of hours per month.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#113> He estimated that he was bringing in $30,000 to $40,000 per month Doesn't sound like "extremely dire financial circumstances" to me...
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#114What 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?
Incidentally, why aren't there more part time positions?
Probably because said leadership would then be unable to keep their employees in meetings since they're supposed to do some actual work once in a while.
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#115What 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?
IME, employees are on committees and boards (though not public company boards all that often) all the time. The issue here taking multiple full time positions. A CEO being the CEO of multiple companies at once is not common, and when it does happen it tends to draw a lot of scrutiny. CEO is considered a full time job, showing up to a board meeting every quarter is not.
The second part of this is disclosure, which was not done in this case.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#116The moral of the story is that the current interviewing process is easy to cheat for people like him.
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#117I 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…
> eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have
Lol - you don't have enough hobbies.
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#118> He estimated that he was bringing in $30,000 to $40,000 per month Doesn't sound like "extremely dire financial circumstances" to me...
Could be a gambling addiction
Re: Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
#119I can't even find one job. What's his secret?
He was good at the office politics kabuki. Wore the right masks and all.
GP is asking how is he able to land multiple jobs in the first place when they can’t even land one.
Office politics comes after you land a job so it doesn’t explain why he was so successful at getting multiple offers.
I’ve seen claims on Twitter that he used multiple tactics:
1. Good ol’ cold emails;
2.Using a recruiter for warm intros
3. Applying like everyone else but with a resume that is full of fabrications.
A common thread in many of his victim companies: he targeted mostly (YC) startups eager to hire (AI) engineers quickly so they can scale.
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#120What 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?
The difference is pretty explicit in the terms and conditions? By the way, there are also leadership positions with similar limitations on your ability to take outside roles.