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The programming job market has been stuck in feast or famine for several years now. But one man has found a 10x exploit to turn remote work into a multithreaded concurrent career. In today's video, we'll look at how Soham Parekh broke the internet by being chronically over-employed.

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A software developer named Sohon Perek gained notoriety for simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups remotely, earning over a million dollars annually by mastering technical interviews and managing concurrent employment. His scheme was exposed when startup founders discovered they were all employing the same person, leading to his termination but also making him a folk hero in tech circles. The story highlights the current challenging job market, the rise of overemployment practices, and the vulnerabilities in remote hiring processes.

When being over-employed goes wrong...

Honestly, Sohon’s story is wild but also shows how broken the tech hiring system can be. If one person can juggle multiple full-time jobs and still deliver, maybe it’s time companies rethink how they define productivity.

It’s OK. Both parties were greedy enough to let that happen.

Some folks just got jealous. That’s all about it. At the end you are just a temporary consultant in most places.

Nice well at least he cashed out lol

First of all, people like him don’t deserve to have a tech job.
On the other hand, those managers and HR departments… what are they doing there!?
What are they getting paid for?
It looks like zero responsibility and pure YOLO.