I can confirm based on my experience that smaller companies do it this too. They may not have many lawyers on retainer but being small, they can (threaten to) w

I can confirm based on my experience that smaller companies do it this too. They may not have many lawyers on retainer but being small, they can (threaten to) walk you out immediately with no consequences, cut-and-paste irrelevant passages from other companies in the new NDA, and other assorted unnecessary nonsense.