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

269 points • by jshchnz • last Wednesday at 8:28 PM • 376 comments • view on HN

Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.

Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

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piker • last Friday at 10:11 AM

This guy, and guys like him, are the reason why it's such a pain to do legit business in the modern world.

Try getting a code signing certificate, opening a bank account for a new business or listing an app on the App Store. You'll quickly see the effects of this kind of behavior.

This guy should be absolutely ostracized.

[Edit: not to mention the countless brilliant Indian software devs for whom he just directly put Silicon Valley out of reach.]

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suyash • last Wednesday at 10:17 PM

It just shows how most startups don't have a good vetting system in place.

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tropicalfruit • last Friday at 7:56 PM

this reminds me of dating apps

instead of all the women chasing the same guy

its all the companies chasing the same dev

soham is a chad

has hiring turned into tinder?