Within the years following the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the idea of antiwork grew in reputation — however so did the other, “overemployment.” As of this publication, the r/overemployed subreddit has practically 450,000 members, and this week its Redditors are celebrating one particular person particularly: Soham Parekh.
Parekh is a software program engineer in India who went viral on Reddit and X for working at a number of startup corporations directly (which is the idea of overemployment: having a number of full-time jobs with hopefully nobody noticing). Suhail Doshi, founding father of Playground AI and different corporations, first broke the information on X. He posted, “PSA: there is a man named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups on the identical time. He is been preying on YC corporations and extra. Beware.”
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“I fired this man in his first week and advised him to cease mendacity/scamming individuals,” the publish continued. “He hasn’t stopped a yr later. No extra excuses.”
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Different individuals within the tech trade posted their tales of interacting with and typically hiring and firing Parekh.
Matthew Parkhurst, cofounder and CEO of startup Antimetal, quoted Doshi’s publish and stated, “Funnily sufficient, Soham was our first engineering rent in 2022…Actually good and likable; loved working with him…We realized fairly shortly that he was working at a number of corporations and let him go.”
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Arkadiy Telegin, cofounder of Leaping AI, posted a photograph with Parekh and stated, “I additionally tried giving him [the] advantage of the doubt. He was denying it until the very finish. Funnily sufficient me and his different ’employer’ [Fuse AI] did a photograph collectively once we came upon. By no means ended up sending it to him sadly.”
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Much more individuals within the quotes shared screenshots of e-mail exchanges with Parekh and calendar occasions for interviews.
In an interview with Expertise Enterprise Programming Community, Parekh stated it is true that he labored at a number of corporations directly. He stated he isn’t pleased with what he is performed, however “out of necessity” resulting from his “dire” monetary circumstances (although he did not go into element), he claimed to work 140 hours every week. (That’s 20 hours a day. He additionally stated he is infamous amongst his buddies for not sleeping.)
Parekh additionally stated he is written “each inch” of the code he constructed, not counting on junior engineers and solely utilizing AI “to help” him.
The state of affairs has opened a dialog concerning the interviewing course of at these tech corporations in addition to whether or not it is really unsuitable to “moonlight” at a number of corporations.
And, after all, this being social media, it additionally spurred a number of meme reactions:
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