Indian techie Soham Parekh climbed viral fame overnight after Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi, one of his many alleged employers, flashed a ‘PSA,’ accusing him of “preying on YC companies.” As the former Mixpanel CEO’s bombshell revelation sent the corporate world, and social media in general, scrambling through a flood of memes and amplified allegations, he coined the controversially hilarious development “soham-gate.”
More and more tweets kept pouring into the pool of all things Soham Parekh, and one such X post came from Indian-origin tech influencer Debarghya ‘Deedy’ Das’ side. While many AI execs and US employers were busy claiming that the overnight sensation in question had approached them as well for a job or possibly how he’d seemingly “crushed” his interview with them, Das reminded the Internet that being “overemployed” was nothing out of the ordinary.
Redditor making $800K a year with 5 jobs
Despite the current state of the economy being defined by tears of unemployment in the background, Deedy shared the case of yet another Soham Parekh-esque case he spotted on Redditor. A social media user opened up about his story of jumping from three jobs to five jobs, which resulted in him cashing in on $800,000 a year.
Shared under the banner of a nearly 500,000-member community “r/overemployed,” the individual revealed that since they started working five jobs, they were making $3,000 a day. Further shedding light on how it was “doable” for them, the person said that they are an expert in the data field and know how to “solve problems in various forms.”
Soham Parekh is just the tip of the iceberg, just like this Redditor pulling $800k a yr working 5 jobs.
— Deedy (@deedydas) July 2, 2025
r/overemployed is a ~500k community where people just maniacally discuss this.
There are 1000s of Soham Parekhs we don't know about. pic.twitter.com/UKyH7uqRUf
Case similar to Soham Parekh’s: Hacks to score multiple jobs spilled
Akin to Parekh’s case, this person also claimed to have been following the ‘remote ‘Work From Home’ professional path. “I’m all remote,” they wrote. “None of this 1 day in the office BS. Just say no.” Their biggest takeaway was never to stress on a job that takes too much effort relative to its returns.
Taking an outright “consultant” role, they spilled, “I won’t be at the all hands meeting. I skip daily standup calls. They know how to reach me if I’m needed, but I keep distance from the organisation. I’ll get a few tough things assigned in a sprint and solve them at some point over two weeks. They leave me alone.”
Given their 15-year experience in the field, the Redditor also divulged how their multi-job gig was achieved. Sharing hacks to live by, they advised others to constantly keep applying for jobs. “I went through a drought for about 6 months, then three hit fast.”
Other tips included adding peripheral skills in the job description, keeping track of the “top 20 interview questions on X” ahead of the big day, and most importantly never to be brought down by failure.
In a shocking reveal, they even urged people not to shy away from lying. “I’ve never failed a background check. Just lie. I had a client demand 2 phone calls with previous managers. I talked them down to one email contact and it was an old friend. Be firm. if they’ve extended an offer, they WANT to hire you. Help them.
Additionally, encouraging people to use AI, they told people to “gamify” the interview process. “Lie, cheat, and steal. Use AI. Tech interviews are 80% an opportunity for some blowhard at the company to impress their skill on you. With AI, the walls of tech are coming down,” they mentioned in their ‘noted to applying’ list.
Indian-origin tech influencer says ‘Soham Parekh just tip of iceberg’
Sharing the screenshot of the Reddit post titled “5 J’s @$800K TC… Using an ROI mentality…,” Deedy Das affirmed on X, “There are 1000s of Soham Parekhs we don’t know about.” The influencer also suggested that the techie-gone-viral was “just the tip of the iceberg,” especially since he and the aforementioned Redditor were just two players in a big scheme unfolding on the dark side of the corporate spectrum.
In a follow-up post, Das added that the “overemployed” playbook was nothing to awestruck by as it always mapped out a certain pattern on the part of the person playing into it. “AI everything,” “camera off / async culture,” “do the work quickly, deliver it slowly,” and “remote-only jobs” were some elements of the supposedly shady work culture.
He went on to decipher how this was a “complete non-issue” if one’s employment contract had no issues with the moonlighting scenario. “It’s only an issue when you lie about it, falsify your resume and mislead. That’s fraud,” he concluded his informative thread.
A genuinely curious user asked if it really was a “bad thing” to be working multiple jobs like this if one was “doing a good job.” Das responded by highlighting that “doing a good job” was not the point at all. The focus was rather on how it was considered “lying and a breach of your employment agreement.”
