I'm not sure that it's rude, per-se. But, it would be considered a disclosure of sensitive IP. (Obviously, most corporate codebases deserve to be gutted and rew

I'm not sure that it's rude, per-se. But, it would be considered a disclosure of sensitive IP. (Obviously, most corporate codebases deserve to be gutted and rewritten from scratch, but there's some kind of internal valuation.) For some perspective -- the company I work for was sold for a tidy sum, and part of the negotiation was that the buyers got statistics about the codebase (number of lines of code, which languages certain sections were in). They didn't get to see any of the code before the sale closed. And, a prospective buyer has a lot more to lose & a lot more influence than a prospective employee.