Software engineer goes viral for working at multiple startups at once

Jul 5 2025 by Mashable

 

In the years following the start of the COVID pandemic, the concept of antiwork grew in popularity — but so did the opposite, "overemployment." As of this publication, the r/overemployed subreddit has nearly 450,000 members, and this week its Redditors are celebrating one person in particular: Soham Parekh.

Parekh is a software engineer in India who went viral on Reddit and X for working at multiple startup companies at once (which is the concept of overemployment: having multiple full-time...

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