An employee works for multiple companies at the same time. However, the companies catch wind of it when they check his data. He justifies himself by saying that no one wants to work 140 hours a week and that he was supposedly in a desperate situation back then.
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An engineer from India worked for 3 to 4 companies at the same time for a while. However, his approach was not particularly clever, so several companies became aware of his methods at the same time.
The engineer himself explained that he is not proud of it, but he was in a difficult financial situation.
Too many excuses and strange references reveal employees
How was the employee caught? Suhail Doshi, founder of the AI design tool Playground, published on X.com a post stating that he had fired an employee. Because this employee would work for multiple companies at the same time.
There is a man who works at three to four start-ups at the same time. He has his sights set on YC companies and others. Be careful.
I fired this man in his first week and told him to stop lying and cheating people. A year later, he still hasn’t stopped. No more excuses.
Doshi was not the only company that had reportedly hired the person. Under his post, several other companies came forward that had fallen for the employee. Upon checking his references and work samples, it became clear that he was likely not only working for a single company.
As another company explained: “It turned out that he had 5-6 profiles, each listing more than 5 jobs he was actually employed at.”
Employee says he was in a financial predicament
How does the employee react? He spoke in an interview with the daily tech show TBPN and explained that he had been in a difficult situation (via x.com):
I am not proud of what I have done. This is also nothing I endorse. But no one likes to work 140 hours a week, I had to do it out of necessity. I was in an extremely difficult financial situation.
I am not a particularly sociable person. I don’t talk much about what goes on in my life. So I thought to myself: If I work in multiple places, maybe I can get out of this situation faster.
Parekh said that he has now gotten a job at Darwin, a startup for AI video remixing, and the founder of the company confirmed this. Whether he has additional jobs on the side, he did not clarify.
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