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Would that even prohibit the employee from contributing code to open source projects? :\

• kodablah 11y ago
  Sometimes yes (without prior approval). In practice this depends on the size of contribution, purpose, and relation to your current employer's industry. I've found there are two types of people: those who do and ask later or claim ignorance, and those that ask up front. I'd guess if you are employed somewhere with these draconian rules concerning unrelated side projects (i.e. pre-approval) then you might not be the type of person they want. I know that feels a bit like employee/victim-blaming, but it also shows how important that employee values his personal software freedoms.
  • vonmoltke 11y ago
    > I know that feels a bit like employee/victim-blaming, but it also shows how important that employee values his personal software freedoms. It's also a great way to punish the naive who have since wised up and want out. There sure do seem to be an awful lot of stupid biases like this floating around for an industry that claims it can't find talent.
    • georgestephanis 11y ago
      Any company that claims it can't find talent is artificially limiting their hiring pool, perhaps based on geographic constraints or the like. We're up to 422 Automatticians at the moment, and that's not really slowing down.