I would agree with your assessment and I have passed on opportunities before that were not good enough to take the risk without having the contract changed. Ho

I would agree with your assessment and I have passed on opportunities before that were not good enough to take the risk without having the contract changed. However I have also made the experience that I'm not unique enough and the huge corporation not desperate enough to hire specifically me that they would engage their lawyers to change the contract. I've also had smaller employers absolutely change contract wording without so much as a question and we were all happy. In this new world of electronic contract signing our hands are also a bit more tied. Instead of being able to just strike through parts of the contract and maybe pencil in something new and they maybe just say "fiiiine" and sign it too, it's now an upfront battle. One that in most garden variety software developer position "negotiations" the corporation has the upper hand in I would say.