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Let's put it this way some CEO spent years finding a product market fit and they hire you - they pay you and let you have access to their internal conversations
by coolThingsFirst 2y ago
Let's put it this way some CEO spent years finding a product market fit and they hire you - they pay you and let you have access to their internal conversations and ideas and you suddenly brainstorm a project with uncanny resemblance to what the company is making - that in my view is stealing IP and is very unethical and shady behavior.
- michaelmrose 2y agoWhat IP did they steal. Please be specific.
- ArdentAardvark 2y agoIt just isn't. You're allowed to make products that compete with products already on the market, even if you've worked for the company making that product. Unless there's specific IP that was stolen, I don't see how this is in any way unethical or shady. They hired you to develop that product, and you did. Nowhere in that contract is anything saying you can never use what you learned elsewhere. They'd need to pay you significantly more than what they paid you (which they won't). And there are great reasons why non-competes are basically invalid in most places.
- fragmede 2y ago> Unless there's specific IP that was stolen, To wit, stealing trade secrets is recognized as an actual crime, and got someone 8 years of jail for trying to sell the formula for Coca-cola to Pepsi.
- strunz 2y agoStrange logic. Would you consider it unethical for former Google employees to start their own search engine? Or to quit and go work for Bing? Assuming they aren't stealing code this happens in every industry. Can former Ford employees not work for Chevy? I don't see the difference.