Timeline for Interviewee offered code samples from current employer -- should I accept?
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 8:55 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @djechlin: Can't disagree with that | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 5:05 | comment | added | user42272 | @Alpha honestly the more I think about this it really just sounds like ignorance. At some point in my life I learned that what the interviewee did is wrong. I definitely didn't learn it in kindergarten or during my non-business, non-engineering college major. Is it really that surprising if the interviewee's boss didn't explain this? If I were loose with my ethics, that would imply I understand them well enough to know this might off put a future employer. Not saying "hire," just trying to figure out what to make of this candidate. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 4:59 | comment | added | user42272 | @LightnessRacesinOrbit that's a great example of an opinion that isn't relevant to whether a developer owns something they wrote. For instance you could maybe use that opinion to convince the company to license the code e.g. as open source. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 0:55 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Sounds more like a "this is highly general-purpose and non-specific code that has no intrinsic link to my current role and could have been written by me or by anyone else at any time in the same form" argument to me | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 20:13 | comment | added | user42272 | @Alpha thanks. enderland's answer was pretty comprehensive but I thought the way that line jumped out to me was particularly telling. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 19:52 | comment | added | Alpha | Thanks for putting my thoughts in words. Yes, that was off putting. | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 19:42 | history | answered | user42272 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |