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Do you think Google would sue you over 2 hours of coding? Technically, they might be able to, but anyone can sue you for anything. If you think they would, yo
by chubot 10y ago
Do you think Google would sue you over 2 hours of coding? Technically, they might be able to, but anyone can sue you for anything.
If you think they would, you're probably overvaluing what you can accomplish in 2 hours, and you're underestimating the cost of a lawsuit to them. I can't imagine a situation in which they would actually pay any of their legal staff to even look at something like this, given all the rest of the things the lawyers have to do there.
I worked for Google for 11 years and wouldn't have hesitated to take a paid interview as long as it was all done in good faith (i.e. for the purposes of getting another job).
Google is trying to hire good engineers and retain them with interesting work and good compensation/perks, not shackle them there by legal means.
- bigiain 10y agoI dunno about Google, but I've got a friend who's legal advice was "Stop working on your phd immediately" when his lawyer read the new employment contract we was being asked to sign when his company got acquired by Oracle. It took months for him to get an extremely limited exemption to the standard contract to be allowed to publish his thesis according to his phd requirements...
- mjevans 10y agoThat's just one more reason to not work at someplace as notoriously 'litigious' as Oracle.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou have no control if your awesome company gets sold to giant multinational.
- user5994461 10y agoClose... but the problem is not Oracle, it's the USA. In the country I come from, the master/PhD students working at a company are under a special set of contracts & laws (slightly different from the usual employment rules). Legally speaking, the company cannot forbid them to perform what is mandated for their school & necessary for their grade.