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In my experience this hasn't been the case. The closest I've come was an employment contract that required me to notify my employer of any work on the side. Thi

by maxaf 11y ago

In my experience this hasn't been the case. The closest I've come was an employment contract that required me to notify my employer of any work on the side. This has happened only once over more than a decade of work in this industry.

arjie 11y ago
GitLab has an employment offer example up on their website¹. Here's the part that's relevant to the discussion: > While you render services to the Company, you will not engage in any other gainful employment, business or activity without the written consent of the Company. While you render services to the Company, you also will not assist any person or organization in competing with the Company, in preparing to compete with the Company or in hiring any employees of the Company. I'm sure we can have both charitable and strict interpretations of "while you render services to the Company" but only a lawyer can probably tell what that means. Did you not have such a clause? ¹ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/
- sytse 11y ago
  I do not think we would make a problem if people did a paid technical interview somewhere else, it doesn't make sense to me. On the other hand it is hard to write an exception for this, but merge requests are welcome. Are technical interviews work on real world problems, the work is not paid and the code is open source. You can opt for an alternative if you want, see https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
superuser2 11y ago
"During your Employment, you shall devote your full business efforts and time to the Company. During your Employment, without written permission from the Chief Executive officer, or one of his direct reports, you shall not render services in any capacity for any other person or entity and shall not act as sole proprietor or parter of any other person or entity..." As I understand it, this is pretty much the nature of being salaried (as opposed to hourly).

by maxaf 11y ago

arjie 11y ago

GitLab has an employment offer example up on their website¹. Here's the part that's relevant to the discussion: > While you render services to the Company, you will not engage in any other gainful employment, business or activity without the written consent of the Company. While you render services to the Company, you also will not assist any person or organization in competing with the Company, in preparing to compete with the Company or in hiring any employees of the Company. I'm sure we can have both charitable and strict interpretations of "while you render services to the Company" but only a lawyer can probably tell what that means. Did you not have such a clause? ¹ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/

sytse 11y ago
I do not think we would make a problem if people did a paid technical interview somewhere else, it doesn't make sense to me. On the other hand it is hard to write an exception for this, but merge requests are welcome. Are technical interviews work on real world problems, the work is not paid and the code is open source. You can opt for an alternative if you want, see https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/ https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

superuser2 11y ago

"During your Employment, you shall devote your full business efforts and time to the Company. During your Employment, without written permission from the Chief Executive officer, or one of his direct reports, you shall not render services in any capacity for any other person or entity and shall not act as sole proprietor or parter of any other person or entity..." As I understand it, this is pretty much the nature of being salaried (as opposed to hourly).