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Tell HN: Personal projects; before you get the job, and after you get the job
Before you get the job:
"We love your personal projects! They show drive and passion! We look for developers with personal projects, who love to code on their own time.".
After you get the job:
"All intellectual property including source code developed during or outside hours remains the property of the company."
- fridif 5y agoGood thing nothing I work on ever leaves the prototype phase
- slater 5y ago> outside hours unenforceable.
- verdverm 5y agoNot true when you use your company laptop at any point in development, then it will come to what the legal system finds. Did you respond to a GitHub issue from said laptop? Got money for lawyers?
- hansvs 5y agoSuch nonsense, beyond just enforceability, it is also silly&lazy™ beaucracy. This clause exists because admins don't want IP to be abused/leaked, but they don't want the headache of actually determining what work would break contract and what work is completely unrelated. Personal anacdote: this clause was used against me by school admins to prevent me from taking my research work with me to another university. I wrote a _nice_ letter to the legal department, pointing out to them thier cost of trying to enforce this, while also having little evidence to show my work is monetarily valuable. After a phone call with one of the lawyers, the IP was released to me. School admins were not informed; seeing the shock in their faces when I told them was priceless.