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Eric Siu discusses the downsides of remote work, including a viral story about Soham Parekh, who allegedly landed high-paying tech jobs while outsourcing the actual work to a dev shop in India before founders exposed him on X.
Eric Siu discusses the downsides of remote work, including a viral story about Soham Parekh, who allegedly landed high-paying tech jobs while outsourcing the actual work to a dev shop in India before founders exposed him on X.
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 posting, 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
