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>Beyond damages, the stigma of being the guy who broke their NDA and leaked financial data would pretty much guarantee no startup would ever touch you with a te
by lsc 10y ago
>Beyond damages, the stigma of being the guy who broke their NDA and leaked financial data would pretty much guarantee no startup would ever touch you with a ten-foot pole.
Is checking what lawsuits you participated in part of a normal employment background check? It seems to me that most employers might avoid looking at that sort of thing for the same reason they avoid looking at your family status.
- Bluestrike2 10y agoNot really, unless there's a reason for a more thorough background check/investigation. My thinking was that such a situation would be the sort of thing people would talk about. Investors would be upset if a leak harmed their interests, founders would be pissed about a betrayal, other companies would talk about it as a "this is why we need that clause" anecdote, reporters might stumble on court filings, etc.Word gets around, and in a lot of ways, the startup/tech communities are still small despite their size. That said, it's just a hypothetical and there would be a lot of factors at play in real life. But if it were at a startup with any sort of profile, or it had well-known investors, I wouldn't bet on the news staying a secret.