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source: I work at G There's a process where you declare this work. And if it gets approved, you have ammunition to back you in a court case if it ends up going
by gretch 3y ago
source: I work at G
There's a process where you declare this work. And if it gets approved, you have ammunition to back you in a court case if it ends up going to such lengths.
I have had projects approved - questions that get asked are about e.g. conflict of interest or actual competition.
Google actually doesn't want to own your fruit-stand-in-the-park business.
This is intended to prevent situations like the zuck/winklevoss case (just to name 1 publicly well known example).
- VectorLock 3y agoNo, they don't care to own most people's weekend projects. They wouldn't have any claim on that anyways. But when someone is spending the time Google pays for to work on a startup, I would THINK they would care about that. Or maybe Google's internal processes is okay with them doing 1 hr/day of work "as long as they're getting done whats expected of them."
- gretch 3y ago> work on a startup, I would THINK they would care about that The decision is not made based on whether the work is a "startup" or not. It's not even clear what a startup is - some companies that are worth more than $1 Billion are still somehow "startup". It's based on conflict of interest, legitimate business competition, leaking/selling sensitive information, and other concrete criteria, in my opinion, are quite fair. It does not depend on whether it is a "startup" or not
- VectorLock 3y agoYeah the startup part is not important, its all the other stuff, but thanks explaining what a startup is/isn't.