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IF that reply is genuine it’s scary. Sounds more like a cult than a job.
by ulfw 6y ago
IF that reply is genuine it’s scary. Sounds more like a cult than a job.
- jldugger 6y agoI suspect this is driven less by an overpossessive engineering management team than a legal team. I'd love to know more about what general counsel is afraid of since I know a lot of people under the same restriction and it meshes with the story Spoolsky tells[1] on side projects: > Because they might try to take an investment, and the investor would say, “prove to me that you’re not going to get sued by some disgruntled ex-employee who claims to have invented the things that you’re selling.” The company wants to be able to pull out a list of all current and past employees, and show a contract from every single one of them assigning inventions to the company. [1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...