How do you secure additional SWE jobs? Are they FTE roles? How's the recruitment process work?
For example, you may be asked "So froaway, why are you leaving company X?" During an interview or such.
Likewise, how do you promote yourself? Surely you can't have all four roles on your CV given the overlap? So do you choose the most relevant for the upcoming new job?
Getting the right meeting cadence down is the toughest part. I make sure to understand the company's meeting culture well before taking any offer. If the meeting schedule doesn't work I leave, it's the biggest factor in any job for me.
In all seriousness, I create a new profile whenever I get a new job and would not be sharing any details here.
Employee is one person doing the jobs of four people - fraud??
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We need to stop praising businesses/execs who work the system while condemning people who do it. Uncaring, amoral corporate culture sees people as mere resources, to be mined for value until they're depleted.
If this is fraud, then expecting somebody to do the workload of multiple people while only receiving one person's salary is also fraud, and that's a conversation I'd be very willing to have.
However, you are likely in violation of employment contract. Where I currently work, and my previous job, you could actually find a way through the official channels by just not being totally accurate about the other job(s).
If challenged it comes down to the details. Moonlighting is a perfectly normal activity for driven people (I did tech blogging for a previous employer once while employed by someone else, so I have navigated this system at one company), and by structuring your disclosures very strategically you could likely avoid any legal impacts.
All that said, working multiple jobs like that will definitely get you fired if you are found out. Even in a state with strong worker protections.
And again, all that said: Don't do this.
As for getting fired, I've never been fired but I've also never been caught. Getting kind of good at it, doing this for the past 5+ years. I would assume the nice thing about getting fired in this situation is having multiple incomes to fall back on. I've never had trouble finding new jobs.
Maybe call it the "144 Hour Work-week"
I don't doubt that some contracts state you can't work another job, but I would consider rereading some of your contracts. Especially in work friendly states, it's hard to enforce those types of clauses and companies are really good at wording things like it's a restriction when it's really a legal suggestion.
> and they found out
How exactly would an employer easily find out? I also worked multiple jobs at FAANG level big tech, you would have to explicitly say something to get found out. In fact, the big tech jobs I've had were genuinely the most administratively bloated and least likely to find out.
Also, finding a new job has never been that difficult, especially in this market.
I also underachieve in terms of moving up the corporate ladder. I've been asked to move into management for more money, and I always reject those types of promotions since it usually means more unavoidable meetings. Also, I don't bother working on difficult projects, I choose to work in roles where I have clear expertise and can complete work in 2-4 times the expected timeline.
I am someone who spent years frustrated by the performative BS at my workplaces. Actually being proactive was not as important as achieving some superficial engineering task that didn't actually solve anything.
So, I flipped the script and leveraged this silliness into a 7 figure salary by working multiple remote jobs. I work 4 SWE jobs, spend about 10-15 hours per week per job, act like I'm "working" for the rest of that time, get paid. Works for me, works for them!