when interviewing you always have two options:

1. answer honestly
2. tell the company what they want to hear (e.g. "i have no hobbies I just love shipping, i work 24/7")

reading Soham's story it's clear that option 2 leads to a lot more success

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actually surprised how many YC startups he was able to fool

It's not though. The current crop of technologists prioritize high energy child sociopaths over decent well centered human beings.

these companies just raised pre-seed and they need to start shipping immediately

that's why they hire the first good engineer they find

they don't have the luxury of Microsoft to do 5 stages of recruitment