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This is probably the reason why most valuable employees are transferred to Switzerland or United States or why big companies choose to develop IP in the US. St
by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
This is probably the reason why most valuable employees are transferred to Switzerland or United States or why big companies choose to develop IP in the US.
Stealing your employer's trade secret can trigger federal investigation.
It's shocking how few employees know this.
Once I met employees who would copy over the propriety packages from their old employers to their new employers just to save some time.
The other time i met employees who would develop a system the exact same way as they had done at the previous employer.
This is probably the biggest risk which specialized employees do not recognize while job hopping.
- frant-hartm 8y ago> The other time i met employees who would develop a system the exact same way as they had done at the previous employer. Ugh.. this is called experience, and it is why companies hire senior developers (Copying code is not acceptable, that I agree with..)
- dm3 8y agoOne would hope the new system would be improved over what was developed previously, not copied from memory verbatim. Snark aside, that's what non-compete agreements are for. I don't believe we've reached the stage where employer can lay claim on your experience. If anyone knows any good Sci-Fi exploring this theme, would be thankful for a pointer!
- ummonk 8y agoThankfully, most non-compete agreements are not valid under California law, so we actually have a free market for labor.
- mdpopescu 8y agoPaycheck - I haven't read the book but, in the movie [1], the main character has his memory wiped back to the initial state after working on trade secrets. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)
- WillPostForFood 8y agoWilliam Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, but especially the second book, Count Zero, revolves around helping a scientist move from one Corp to another.