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But your next company is getting your prior experience, which becomes more out-of-date every day, not your up-to-the-minute experience on what might be an activ
by lotharbot 9y ago
But your next company is getting your prior experience, which becomes more out-of-date every day, not your up-to-the-minute experience on what might be an actively competing project.
- thecrazyone 9y agodoesn't negate the problem stated as whatever the experience is, it's value is non-zero. Hence the benefit to later employers is also non-zero (could be argued) at the cost of earlier employers
- lotharbot 9y agothe problem is more specific than the second employer getting non-zero value. It's getting ongoing value, under the table, direct from a present competitor -- harming the relative competitiveness of the first employer. The value of this, of course, depends very much on the specific industry and project. It doesn't really matter if your guy who builds generic websites for your clients also builds generic websites for a competitor's clients. That doesn't materially hurt the first employer. But it can matter a lot if your guy who you are paying to develop cutting-edge algorithms is deploying those algorithms to the competitor you're trying to beat. Instead of gaining an edge worth $X per year, your company instead gains only part of that advantage because at least one competitor is cutting into it.