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Just a heads up, after passing 50 hours of assignments and interviews, I turned down an offer from IBM because they wanted to own my side project. Stay clear of
by eloff 10y ago
Just a heads up, after passing 50 hours of assignments and interviews, I turned down an offer from IBM because they wanted to own my side project. Stay clear of big blue if you like doing side projects, their legal dept is overzealous.
- disordinary 10y agoYeah, I've negotiated out that clause on a few contracts. I think Google is the same, people who are Googlers with opensourced projects that have nothing to do with Google all have them hosted on the Google github account for this reason. I'm not in the US but AFAIK US law (or at least Californian law) states that a company can only own what you do in your personal time if it competes with them, the problem is that for companies the size of IBM and Google that could be most things.
- erikb 10y agoThat probably applies to all companies that are so big that middle-management people aren't a rare sight. It's not just because they are bad people, but they need simple, reliable systems to keep so many people work in the same directions. Even awesome exceptions are a huge pain to them since each one creates organizational debt.