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Most big tech companies that I'm familiar with allow you to program on your free time, as long as you give them a heads up and it doesn't conflict with the comp
by ipsum2 8y ago
Most big tech companies that I'm familiar with allow you to program on your free time, as long as you give them a heads up and it doesn't conflict with the company's products. E.g. working on a video game or contributing to open source.
- notyourwork 8y agoPlease name one, they all have the same non-compete language in their job offers and they are at-will positions. It may be allowed by your manager but company policy isn't such.
- Pfhreak 8y agoOther companies have exemption policies, or mechanisms to get approvals. Amazon does not. Your choices were work privately on your own project or leave (or risk being fired for violating the policy.) Amazon was more aggressive (in my opinion) and much stricter than any other company I've ever worked at. Edit: I researched a lot of the other tech companies. Here's Google's documentation, for example, which outlines an exception process: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
- ipsum2 8y agoOff the top of my head, there's company policies for employees to work on their own projects at Google, Facebook, and Github.
- saagarjha 8y agoHow often are they granted, and under what circumstances?
- brlewis 8y agoHopefully a more recent Googler will answer you. In 2013 they were granted often, so long as they didn't compete with a Google product. I had to close my photo sharing site off to new users when I started at Google.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoFrom what I understand from coworkers from Google and other parts of Amazon the process is pretty similar to get approval outside of games.
- tanilama 8y agoWhy is game development different?
- throwaway1280 8y agoWorked for Amazon. It was a big issue internally, but we never got a good answer to that question.