1 engineer, many jobs and a hiring reckoning for tech
San Francisco, July 4 -- Over this week, both Reddit and X were on fire over an Indian engineer named Soham Parekh. On Wednesday Suhail Doshi, a San Francisco-based founder associated with the Y Combinator accelerator startup community, posted a tweet about the engineer, with a word of caution. "He works at 3-4 startups at the same time and has been preying on YC companies. Beware," Suhail Doshi posted, adding a screenshot of the person's resume. Within a few hours, his X blew up with other startup founders posting that they had hired or fired Soham Parekh. At least five founders accused the engineer of moonlighting - or job stacking, a practice of working multiple full-time remote jobs concurrently.
As tweets tumbled one after the other, m...
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