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You're in a contract with them that specifies this as a clause. So yes, they kinda do (unfortunately).

• echelon 7y ago
  And that's wholly unethical. Companies that do this are happy for employees to remain wage slaves and nothing more. They don't truly admire success unless it feeds the bottom line. Unless Apple can prove this person stole something (cf. Waymo), fuck them. I hope every engineer they have that is working on their own side hustle leaves and that anyone considering the company for employment looks elsewhere.
  • zxienin 7y ago
    Are these unethical contracts made (or at min. shielded/supported) by same folks who once had mini / side hustle of own and now gone big? Or is it a different populace altogether? (edit: might just turn out to be a rhetoric)
• stale2002 7y ago
  Not if the contract provision is illegal. And many of these contracts are indeed illegal in the state of California.