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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? by alpb on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:32PM (#44458423)
this email? https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745
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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? by mpeg on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:01AM (#44464662)
That's a particularly terrible cold email, you can tell he didn't even bother applying some basic personalisation to it outside of [COMPANY_NAME]
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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? by sreekanth850 on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:05AM (#44465189)
Nutshell: Toxic founders who want developers to code 24X7 may hired him seeing this.
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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? by anon_2222 on Friday July 04, 2025 @02:24PM (#44466786)
ding ding ding. both soham + recruiter implied he basically just codes day and night. our founder (yc) was drooling! there's a very specific type of company + founder that falls for this stuff. no surprise he targeted ai startups.
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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? by sreekanth850 on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:43PM (#44469747)
Yes, this is probably what happened. Not like he was a super human engineer.
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