Software Engineer Goes Viral For Juggling Multiple Jobs At Silicon Valley Startups

An Indian software engineer, Soham Parekh, has been accused on the social media platform X this week of simultaneously working full-time remote positions at multiple startups in Silicon Valley. Parekh’s name went viral on the social network as more companies acknowledged hiring him—some of them for years. Parekh confirmed some of the claims in a recent interview.

The founder and CEO of Playground AI, Suhail Doshi, shared a post that went viral on the social media network X and sparked surprise in the startup community as more startup leaders recognized Parekh as their employee.

“PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware,” wrote Doshi. “I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying/scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.”

PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware.

I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.

— Suhail (@Suhail) July 2, 2025

Doshi included an image of the engineer’s CV and said he tried to talk to Parekh and even gave him a second chance. The post reached over 20 million views and caught attention, as more tech leaders and CEOs also reported hiring Parekh.

Flo Crivello, the CEO of the startup Lindy, was one of the CEOs who had hired Parekh and fired the engineer after reading Doshi’s post on X. “We hired this guy a week ago. Fired this morning,” wrote Crivello in a post. “He did so incredibly well in interviews, must have a lot of training. Careful out there.”

According to other posts shared by Doshi, multiple investors, managers, and CEOs reached out to confirm the information, saying they too had hired or interviewed the talented engineer.

The podcast show TBPN interviewed Parekh on Thursday, who confessed to working at multiple startups simultaneously.

“I’m not proud of what I’ve done. That’s not something I endorse either,” said  Parekh. “But no one really likes to work 140 hours a week, I had to do it out of necessity.”

We asked @realsohamparekh if he had been working multiple full-time jobs at once.

“It is true.”

“I’m not proud of what I’ve done. That’s not something I endorse either. But no one really likes to work 140 hours a week, I had to do it out of necessity.”

“I was in extremely dire… pic.twitter.com/IC3qXOPdSt

— TBPN (@tbpn) July 3, 2025

Dubbed “Soham-Gate” on social media, the situation has sparked heated debate. Hundreds of users also shared memes and jokes as the news went viral. “Microsoft just laid off 9,000 workers. All of them Soham Parekh,” wrote user Daniel, referring to the recent wave of layoffs announced by Microsoft this week.