I've signed a number of bullcrap NDAs in SF and the valley– small and large companies alike. Same here. In fact, the most obnoxious ones were from California c

I've signed a number of bullcrap NDAs in SF and the valley– small and large companies alike. Same here. In fact, the most obnoxious ones were from California companies. There was one company where I had a personal introduction (high school friend knew the CEO) and they still wanted me to sign an NDA just to take a damn coding test. (Not an NDA covering the coding test, but one that included a two-year nonsolicit.) I'm sure there are a lot of junior idiots who are that desperate for startup jobs; me, I told them to rightly fuck off (in nicer language). New York VC-istan may be worse, but California VC-istan seems to combine New York greed with California presentation, and that's just fucking dishonest. I have a lot more respect for people like traders, who are utterly greedy but completely honest about being so.