Playing devil's advocate here: how will this come back to bite you if you do it on your own time and equipment? How would the current employer know to care? No

Playing devil's advocate here: how will this come back to bite you if you do it on your own time and equipment? How would the current employer know to care? Not saying you should require your candidates to break the law. Also, though IANAL, California does have laws that give employees the right to their own IP on their own time/equipment when it doesn't use work IP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056)