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Please 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 p
by notyourwork 8y ago
Please 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.