Within the years following the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the idea of antiwork grew in recognition — 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 individual specifically: Soham Parekh.
Parekh is a software program engineer in India who went viral on Reddit and X for working at a number of startup firms 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 firms, 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 firms and extra. Beware.”
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“I fired this man in his first week and instructed him to cease mendacity/scamming folks,” the submit continued. “He hasn’t stopped a yr later. No extra excuses.”
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Different folks within the tech trade posted their tales of interacting with and generally hiring and firing Parekh.
Matthew Parkhurst, cofounder and CEO of startup Antimetal, quoted Doshi’s submit 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 firms 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 after we came upon. By no means ended up sending it to him sadly.”
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Much more folks within the quotes shared screenshots of e mail exchanges with Parekh and calendar occasions for interviews.
In an interview with Know-how Enterprise Programming Community, Parekh stated it is true that he labored at a number of firms directly. He stated he is not pleased with what he is accomplished, however “out of necessity” attributable to 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 associates 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 in regards to the interviewing course of at these tech firms in addition to whether or not it is really improper to “moonlight” at a number of firms.
And, after all, this being social media, it additionally spurred a whole lot of meme reactions:
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