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 almost 450,000 members, and this week its Redditors are celebrating one particular person 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 similar time. He is been preying on YC firms and extra. Beware.”
“I fired this man in his first week and informed him to cease mendacity/scamming individuals,” the submit continued. “He hasn’t stopped a 12 months later. No extra excuses.”
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Different individuals 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 mentioned, “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 mentioned, “I additionally tried giving him [the] good thing about 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 discovered. 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 mentioned it is true that he labored at a number of firms directly. He mentioned he is not happy with what he is achieved, however “out of necessity” as a result of his “dire” monetary circumstances (although he did not go into element), he claimed to work 140 hours per week. (That’s 20 hours a day. He additionally mentioned he is infamous amongst his mates for not sleeping.)
Parekh additionally mentioned 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 unsuitable to “moonlight” at a number of firms.
And, in fact, this being social media, it additionally spurred loads of meme reactions:
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