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

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Post by Eisenstein »

gfdujdufituj wrote: post #390
swores wrote: post #379

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> "Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?" You say that like you're unaware that huge numbers of people (I doubt anywhere near a majority, but significant numbers certainly) DO think that he is a hero who deserves to be pardoned. For a quick example, see https://x.com/search?q=Free%20luigi&src=typed_query

I wouldn't call far-left terrorists "people".

I'm sure you would be in good company with them, as you have also given up morality in order to dehumanize those to whom you are opposed.

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

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Post by kaashif »

jen20 wrote: post #384
ReptileMan wrote: post #66

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Unicorns are easier to find than newspapers. If you threaten to shoot me unless I bring newspaper - I am not even sure where they sell them anymore in my city.

Last time I was in New York City I could not for the life of me find a paper copy of the New York Times to read. Newsstands appear to just be selling candy and drinks.

You can get the New York Times and other newspapers in airports still. I do still buy a newspaper before a flight sometimes, but I actually shouldn't because flights have WiFi now.

Irrational and nostalgic.

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

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

NegativeK wrote: post #386
altairprime wrote: post #108

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…

I've never seen that perspective. Work has always been a distraction from my hobbies. _Always_. Sometimes they're related, but often they're not. Though... Your stance lines up with people who work well into their retirement years while not needing the income? I'd struggle to give two weeks notice if I suddenly had enough money to live on for the rest of my life.

I like work because work provides value for other people. I don't like hobbies because hobbies provide value only to myself, and I am already worth enough as I am. What's there not to get?

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

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Post by codemystery »

It's because in the leftist bay area tech scene, of which ycombinator is the absolute epicenter, no one does bias training. Among leftists, indians are the "model minority" and everyone is looking for an indian golden boy. You have no idea you are even doing it because you have implicit bias you are always crowing about. India is one of the poorest nations on earth and has many smart people, but there is an infatuation among the monied west coast left.

In a way the leftist tech scene has adopted eastern mysticism and shows how far california has moved from westernism. Hindu and Buddhism are religions that worship living humans and believe in divine incarnation. A young person might be a llama in hinduism or a tulku in buddhism. It's not to say that these tech startups are worshiping their newly discovered india programmer, but it is the culture that does not fall far from the tree.

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

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Post by freefaler »

asdf6969 wrote: post #267
freefaler wrote: post #160

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Employment contract is a contract and usually it's fixed hours per workday for a salary. So basically you as employee swap X hours per Y amount of money. If one of the parties is in breach of that contract it's normal it to be dissolved. If you don't want to work, you don't need to sign that contract. The really moral part of free market economy is that both parties are voluntary entering a contract. You as a person…

Salaried positions are explicitly not selling time. Whether I work 2 or 12 hours the compensation is the same. The only reason these contracts make sense is the unstated agreement that my employer won’t abuse the contractual power they theoretically have. And what’s the alternative? Signing bad contracts and leaving when things go to shit is probably 10x better for my career than pretending that I have agency in cont…

All the jobs I had in was contractually required to work from X to Y at a place Z. So my experience is that is indeed a selling skilled time.

The ones you describe where there is a contract for output, usually with external contractors not full-time employees.

And you indeed have agency, especially if you provide something hard to find or you're the sole provider for this company of that service and the switching cost is high. Basic microeconomics...

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

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Post by Gillinghammer »

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…

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

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Post by jxjnskkzxxhx »

lexarflash8g wrote: post #363
ls-a wrote: post #319

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I wish he was never caught. The companies deserved that

Realize that a lot of candidates who followed the rules and told the truth were screwed out of jobs. Right now there are massive layoffs and lots of good people are out of jobs and this guy is being praised by sticking it to “corporate greed”? Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?

If there were more like him, powerful people would be less unhinged.

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

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Post by j45 »

baobun wrote: post #354
j45 wrote: post #300

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Consulting often pays way more than salaries every do.

In the same way that driving Uber pays more than driving for a taxi company: Not as much when you factor in your own expenses (taxes, insurance, etc) and non-billable work.

Uber doesn't pay more than a job as a taxi driver as far as I know (take home).

The take home pay after carrying more expenses probably makes it worse.

Uber sells demand for transport. They don't own the transport and the burden of owning, and maintaining the transport is pushed on to freelancers, who have less certainty of income than they would as employees might.

Theres been lots written about the insecurity to employment that is created by more things offering gig jobs on one hand but not always ending up also offering part time or full time positions.

From the customers side, apps like Uber provide a sense of certainty (visual map) that existing industries haven't been willing to invest the same kind of capital into and those apps as a result are not comparable or inviting.

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

sfn42 wrote: post #345
conartist6 wrote: post #169

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It's hilarious because companies use such scammable ways to define who is "top 0.1%" Also there's a ton amazing engs out there who want and need work but the companies all only want that one "perfect" guy (or gal), as if such a thing exists

I've seen a lot more employed shitty devs than I've seen unemployed amazing devs. In fact I don't know a single competent developer who has trouble getting work. This is in Norway, maybe it's different elsewhere.

My observation of the situation in Germany is different: I know quite some quite skilled developers who have/had quite some trouble getting jobs.

The other hand, the bad developers (impostors) who easily found jobs were typically sycophants. On the other hand, many highly skilled developers were rather more stubborn (they can't stand bullshit), very honest, and not "corporate politicians".

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

aristofun wrote: post #237
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…

> he's actually a very skilled engineer By that you mean more like "he is top 0.1% at leetcode and whatever broken hiring process we have" ? Why would really top 0.1% engineer go for all the hustle with small startups. If he could score a single job at some overfunded AI company and get even more with less risks? This doesn't add up at all, sorry.

> If he could score a single job at some overfunded AI company and get even more with less risks?

There is a high risk that the AI bubble will collapse.

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