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> I heard from friends that they had to sign an NDA just to interview Is this not standard practice? I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't sign an
by MegaButts 7y ago
> I heard from friends that they had to sign an NDA just to interview
Is this not standard practice? I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't sign an NDA before interviewing.
- jasondclinton 7y agoThe OP's relayed complaint was that they would not tell him what he would be working on. A good reason not to accept a job.
- mrep 7y agoGranted, I've only interviewed at public companies, but I've never signed a NDA in my life.
- wpietri 7y agoAre you sure? The large companies I visit, and quite a number of small ones, have NDAs as part of the sign-in process.
- strictnein 7y agoNo NDA when interviewing at the Fortune 100s/Global Fortune 500 I've worked at.
- wpietri 7y agoI just double-checked, searching my email archives from everything from Envoy, a common front-desk app. Some of these places were interviews; most were just visiting somebody. All of them had NDA language, including these companies: Asana, Blink Health, Lever, Lyft, NerdWallet, Reddit, Slack, StitchFix, and Twilio. Just to walk in the door. Maybe those folks are all outliers somehow. But I doubt it.
- strictnein 7y agoSounds like it's mostly an SV thing then? A lot of things are handled very differently out there.