Eric Siu discusses how remote work enabled Soham Parekh to land high-paying developer roles, then outsource the actual work to a shop in India while collecting the salary. Founders eventually discovered the fraud, raising questions about trust and verification in remote hiring.
This is a consequence of remote work. Did you see the story about Soham Parekh? This guy Soham, so everyone was talking about him on X this week. What he would do is he'd get a job at like any company, right? And they pay him like $150,000 to $200,000 plus equity. And so because he'd interview so well, he'd get the job. And then what he would do is he would have an army of people. He had like a dev shop in India where he basically was farming the work out to other people. And so many people hired him. And one guy reported him basically saying, hey guys, there's this guy Soham Parekh and he's going around Silicon Valley preying on companies. He's actually not doing work. And then all these founders start going, oh my God, we've hired him before. Oh my God, we fired this guy before. Oh my God, this guy's actually employed with us right now. But my point of bringing this guy up is
