This Soham allegedly works ~10 jobs at the moment.
Suhail, founder of Gumroad and previously part of US’s DOGE, decided to go public after failing into the trap and trying to convince him to stop scamming everyone. ⬇️
He’s since posted a myriad of DMs on his feed from other hiring managers and an engineering director WORKING WITH SOHAM right now.
I wish this was rare, but r/Overemployed on reddit has 438,000 members trying to hack the system the same way, sharing wins working 2-3 jobs at a time, including tips on multiple laptops, parallel Calendars with sync features to avoid overlapping meetings (and blocking time automatically), all sorts of mouse apps to simulate motion, and now PR merging coding agents and more.
Soham reportedly even made it to a couple of on-site interviews in San Francisco for companies, and plugged junior Indian developers for some of his roles.
I’ve met multiple Sohams over the past few years – especially during the pandemic. Work from home is a privilege turned into a hacking opportunity for creative jobs that can’t be tracked down to the T. And IT corporations have pioneered all sorts of freedom, creativity, fancy offices with baristas and lunches and kindergartens for workers, gym cards, massages… Just to get professionals in the right zone for scaling companies nearing a trillion market cap.
Because this is what coaches do for athletes, and professional football and basketball players are held to strict standards even past their “working hours” – their food regime, sleeping patterns, what they can and cannot do.
So ultimately, IT talent isn’t held to the same standards, is often paid the same (or more), doesn’t sweat running around like crazy 7 days a week, got to work from home during the pandemic. Only to cheat the system and mess everything up. 🤷♂️
As comedian Paula Poundstone and the famous Taylor Swift would say, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”
When mediocrity is tolerated, we end up in situations like this one.
1. Scammers screwing over companies
2. Bragging about that publicly and attracting others to lie
3. Forming a society of cheaters
4. Other co-workers getting jealous and demotivated
5. Companies slow down, underperform, lose competitiveness
6. Revenue goes down -> investors burn cash
7. Legit people and investors lead layoff rounds, return people to the office, and start with low level of trust
☄️ That’s what happens when individuals only care about themselves and are willing to drag an entire industry with them.
