Tangential and largely unrelated, but a long time ago, I worked for a startup that got bought out by a megacorporation. The startup didn't really make us sign a

Tangential and largely unrelated, but a long time ago, I worked for a startup that got bought out by a megacorporation. The startup didn't really make us sign any NDAs or non-competes, so most of the people there had a fairly active github profile. The transition was fairly smooth, but the megacorporation wanted us to sign NDAs, which most of the engineers did, but I made the mistake of actually reading it, and realizing that they kind of stuck an extremely vague non-compete in there. I didn't sign it. I was at that company for a whole year longer, every week getting a "reminder" email to sign the NDA, which I never did. I'm not a jerk, I didn't disclose any company secrets or release their code, but I doubt I was the only person who found that little "we don't feel like firing you" loophole, and the others might have been a little less nice than me.