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> I definitely wouldn't want my employees going around and hacking competitors in their free time. Where do you work? Just so I know where not to apply.

• justin_oaks 5y ago
  Hey now, they said they wouldn't want their employees doing it, not that they'd forbid employees doing what they will with their free time.
• jahewson 5y ago
  This is both a conflict of interest and could bring the employer into disrepute. Many employment contract rightfully forbid such actions, free time or not.
• mypalmike 5y ago
  Please name a company where you would expect such behavior to be encouraged. Genuinely curious.
  • tsimionescu 5y ago
    Uber? They care little for other laws, so I would be surprised if they cared for this one ethical standard.
  • Aachen 5y ago
    "Encouraged" is different from prohibited / it being a firing offense. I just checked with my employer. To make sure I represented the situation accurately, here is what I wrote (I applied the situation to our line of business, IT security, and replaced credit cards with another type of authorization token to make it realistic for us): > if <name of actual competitor> releases a hosted password manager, where you store all your secrets on their servers, would <our company name> condone me looking at the internals of that application in private time, or does <our name> rather think that's a liability risk? The answer started with, and I quote: "not a problem". My employer did request advance warning (they expected me to actually have such plans it seems; I clarified afterwards this was completely hypothetical for a HN comment) such that, in case it's controversial, they can warn the competitor ahead of time and say it's just my private opinion, but that's just a request and sounds reasonable to me.
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