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"He crushed the interview": Silicon Valley duped by software engineer secretly working four jobs


The story first gained traction when Suhail Doshi, co-founder and former CEO of Mixpanel, issued a public warning on X. "PSA: there's a guy named Soham Parekh...

A hot potato: Soham Parekh, a software engineer from India has become the focus of a sweeping controversy in Silicon Valley after admitting he secretly held multiple full-time jobs at tech startups, sometimes juggling as many as four roles at once. Sanjit Juneja, founder and CEO of Darwin, confirmed Parekh's new role, stating, "Soham is an incredibly talented engineer and we believe in his abilities to help bring our products to market," in a statement to Fortune. The incident has sparked a broader reckoning within the tech industry about the pressures of startup culture, the challenges of overseeing remote teams, and the growing phenomenon of workers quietly holding multiple jobs.

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