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"That said, Google has a VERY restrictive IP a policy that effectively prohibits employees from running side businesses at ANY time during their employment on A

"That said, Google has a VERY restrictive IP a policy that effectively prohibits employees from running side businesses at ANY time during their employment on ANY medium, Google-owned or not. Anything you make is Google's. " Actually, this is pretty much 100% false (I help run the invention assignment committee, so ...). We let it happen all the time, and in fact, grant people the IP to do it. This is significantly better than most companies, who pretty much don't tell you, and then if you come up with something cool, will sue you and get it from you.

nunez 10y ago
The language in the IP agreement I signed said the exact opposite. Engineers from the group I was in left because of this. Can you elaborate?
- DannyBee 10y ago
  "The language in the IP agreement I signed said the exact opposite." Did you actually attend the week two training we give entitled "open source and IP", that covers this in great detail? "Engineers from the group I was in left because of this." I would love to know who you believe left because of this. In the 11 years i've worked at Google, the vast majority of people i've seen leave in this situation left because they basically wanted to start a competitive startup, get the IP from google, and still get paid by google at the same time (quite literally). The number of people who left for ideological reasons i can count on one, maybe two hands.