Software engineer goes viral for working at multiple startups at once

In the year following the start of the covid pandemic, the concept of antiwork green – but so did the opposite, “Overemploment.” As of this publication, the r/overemplooyed subreddit has brought 450,000 members, and this week its redditors are celebrated one person in Particular: Soham Parekh.

Parekh is a software engineer in India who went viral on reddit and x for working at multiple Startup Companies at Once (which is the concept of overemployment: Having is the concept Hopefully no one noticing). Suhail Doshi, Founder of Playground Ai and Other Companies, First Broke The News on X. He Posted, “PSA: There’s a guy named Soham Parekh (In India) Who Worsks at 3-4 Startups at the Same Timel. He’s been preying on yc companies and more. ”

“I Fird This Guy in His First Week and Told Him to Stop Lying/Scamming People,” The Post Continued. “He Hasn’T stopped a year laater. No more excuses.”

Other people in the tech industry posted their stories of interaction with and sometimes hiring and firing para.

Matthew Parkhurst, Cofounder and CEO of Startup Antimetal, Quoted Doshi’s post and said, “Funnily enough, soham was our first engineering hire in 2022 … really Smart and Likable; Enjoyed VOIROKERED VOIROKERED VOIRKERGE; Him … we realized pretty quickly that he was working at multiple companies and let him go. “

Arkadiy Telegin, Cofounder of Leapping Ai, Posted a photo with parakh and said, “I also tried giving him (the) Benefit of the doubt. He was denting iteing it ‘Employer’.

Even more people in the quotes shared screenshots of email exchanges with parekh and calendar events for interviews.

In an interview with Technology Business Programming Network, Parekh Said It’s True That He Worked At Multiple Companies at Once. He said he’s not proud of what he’s don, but “out of negacy” due to his “Dire” Financial Circumstans (thought he Didn Bollywood Go Into Detail), He Claimed to Work 140 hours a vehicle. (That is 20 hours a day.

Parekh also said hee’s written “every inch” of the code he bill, not relaying on Junior Engineers and Only Using Ai “to Assist” Him.

The situation has opened a conversation about the interviewing process at these tech companies as well as whether it’s it’s actually wrong to “Moonlight” at Multiple Companies.

And, of course, this being social media, it also spurred a lot of meme reactions: