Thursday, October 31, 2013
Be More Careful
We might have to read carefully any contract we sign. I'm currently working as a software engineering intern for a software company in Draper and writing code for their product. I remember that I signed some employment contract I did not carefully read when I started the internship. After reading the assigned articles, I thought about one question. Would the comapany I work for would own everything I write? I get paid to sit and write code, so they probably would. I actually do not care whether they would or not because I am not that talented yet. I, however, do care the fact that I have never thought about it. If I was a more talented and experienced engineer who provides excellent ideas that could directly contributes to the company's growth, the fact could have been more serious.
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I did think carefully before signing my contract because it had a clause about them owning anything I worked on (even outside of work) up to one year after I stopped working with them. HR, my manager, and I got into a little spat over that. You never know when a little side project might go crazy and you have a potential billion dollar company on your hands. Do you really want your employer to be the sole owner?
ReplyDeleteThat was a good lesson, and made me realize how important it is to read the fine print.
ReplyDeleteGood point. I signed one of those once. Luckily I didn't really come up with anything new for the people I was working for.
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