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This can be difficult depending on the company. Mine has every dev sign a non-compete that boils down to "If you write any code that competes with us is any way
by mabbo 5y ago
This can be difficult depending on the company. Mine has every dev sign a non-compete that boils down to "If you write any code that competes with us is any way, we own it".
They used to let us file requests to confirm whether or not it does compete. They stopped answering and now just say "use your best judgement", which is a nice way of saying "We'll sue you if we need to".
- ardit33 5y agoUnless you are competing directly with the company, or doing anything that they are actively working on, any such non-competes, or 'we own your rights to whatever' will not hold in a court of law.
- mkr-hn 5y agoBetter to hire a lawyer to verify that while in the well-paid job rather than later when the employer comes after the startup.
- adamrezich 5y agodoes this apply to Washington as well? I've wanted to get my friend who's been working at Amazon for years to do some game jammin' with me sometime, but he says company policy is that HR needs to sign off on literally any code he writes outside of work
- mabbo 5y agoWhile this is probably true, I work for a rather large cloud computing and online retail company who do everything. You can't name a field they aren't in.