Questions tagged [non-disclosure-agreement]
A non disclosure agreement are the terms two parties agree on that specify not to pass information of the project to outside parties.
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Applying to Work for a Competitor in a Small Market
I currently work for a small technology company (<100 employees) and I am leading the development of a new product with a team of 2-3 coworkers. It's a niche product, and I am aware of 2-4 direct ...
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Identifying details despite an NDA as a third party (California)
If a potential employee were to claim that they worked for a company that was sold but their NDA prevents them from speaking about their company name, the buying company's name, and details about what ...
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Listing company on resume where NDA prevents company name
I have a company that I worked for where I am not allowed to mention that I worked for this company. How would I list this experience on my resume?
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Laid off with no NDA signed [closed]
If an employee or a contractor gets laid off, but has no NDA signed.. Could they go ahead work for competitors and even take the work they have done and resell/redo for the competitors?
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Mentioning NDA-protected projects in portfolio when NDA period expires
My current job contract (in an outsource software development company) explicitly says that I should not disclose "commercial secrets" while I'm employed and within a year after termination. ...
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Can I sign an NDA without telling my employer?
I am discussing an idea about a personal project with a colleague. As part of our discussion, my colleague raised the need for an NDA.
This project is something I am carrying out in my free time, so ...
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How can I interview at competing company for an R&D role in pharma?
I work for a pharmaceutical company as a scientist. I am employed as a contractor, with no benefits, and would like to have a stable full-time position. I have started applying to scientist positions ...
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Asking for compensation for signing NDA?
I work at a company and was asked to sign a NDA/CA (non disclosure agreement/confidentiality agreement). There is no expiry date (indefinite) as long as the knowledge doesnt become public knowledge.
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Soon-to-be-ex-employer trying to force me to disclose name of new employer
I recently tendered my resignation at my current company (senior engineer; get along well with the teams, but my boss's boss promised big bonuses and raises they never delivered even when my team ...
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I am leaving my job. Gave two weeks notice. My boss wants a signed NDA. Should I ? What's in it for me?
There was been continuous between myself and the doctor's office manager. I met with the doctor and explained that I could no longer take the manager's beratement and aggressive behavior. He accepted ...
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Am I allowed to disclose to a company that they're using my current companies software during interviews?
Consider that I am working for a company which is selling a software and not publically disclosing most of their customers. I am, of course, under NDA. If I were to apply/interview to/with a different ...
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Too lengthy NDA, should I ask for keypoints?
I recently got a contract for 3 months. The NDA after me signing up the contract came in which is too lengthy and very technical requiring mostly me not disclosing about my work etc.
I never had ...
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Could a partner confide to my boss that I want to change my job?
For one year I worked with a consultant who covers an important role for a company I would like to work for.
He would most likely be working with anyone who takes one of these open positions. I have ...
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Should my line manager know why my colleague left?
I work in a small software team in the UK (so UK law applies here). I was recently informed that my colleague of over 10 years was leaving this week.
Things have been 'unpleasant' since our company ...
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Employment contract in a small company
A small Canadian company sent me an offer of employment in which there is nothing said about my salary figures (which does not concern me, as I and my employer have discussed this verbally). The only ...
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What one can do if he is forced to violate NDA in work practice?
Is there any advice for the following situation happened in Finland?
I was in an educational program for unemployed people. They asked me to sign an NDA. One point was that I can't remove the files ...
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Recruiter from large firm asking for where I was submitted
I was asked by a recruiter recently for different firms I was recruited to - both sell-side (investment banks) and buy-side firms (prop shops, hedge funds, HFTs, etc.). I am wondering if this is fine, ...
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How to handle a work period where client name and details are under NDA?
I am a private/personal chef located in the US. My previous employer had me sign a very specific NDA where I could not state location, details of diet, heath, salary...not even disclose WHOM I WAS ...
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Is it wise to ask help for someone who has done something similar?
Suppose we have the following situation: Employee has signed an NDA. Boss asks to do something new that requires maybe bachelor degree on some other field employee has never done before. Is it legal/...
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How much company information can I reasonable disclose on my resume?
I've signed an NDA. From what I can tell, it's fairly broad and generic. I'm not working on cutting-edge or interesting stuff, so it's probably pretty standard. I can't share the text here.
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Should I sign a NDA that holds me liable for legal fees even if I am in the right?
I am asked to sign an NDA before seeing the codebase for a potential project. This is all fine. But, one of the items on NDA reads like they can take me court on a possible violation, and charge me ...
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Asked to sign a confidentiality and non-compete contract, after working here 10+ years; how should I approach this?
Is it normal to have a generic Intellectual Property agreement without specifically naming out what is considered to be IP/Confidential?
After working as a web developer and then as a manager for ...
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Afraid of confidentiality agreement; will I be breaking it? [closed]
I signed a confidentiality agreement with a company that was for an unpaid "job". I quit with them and now had some innovative ideas I had to share with them on past projects I couldn't do before.
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Non-disclosure agreement in a small business
If a company hires me and tells me to work on my own laptop, and then makes me sign a non-disclosure agreement:
who owns my code?
do I get to re-use it?
what exactly falls under the scope of the non-...
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My employer signed an NDA on my behalf
I work for the US government in a research facility. I basically cannot sign anything on my own and definitely am not allowed to sign an NDA without written authorization from my supervisor. Yesterday ...
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Applying for a job with my customer when there is an NDA?
My employer, "company A", has me on an unjust PIP. I am applying for other jobs. A customer of theirs has an open position which is similar to mine. I have done work for that customer (while at ...
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Interviewing - Non Solicitation with third party firm
I applied for a job with a firm, and went through a technical phone interview.
It turns out that the position is for a second company, and I would work as a contractor from the initial company.
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Asked to disclose employment, but it's non-public
Some time ago, I was asked in a job application to disclose whether I was at the time employed by a certain entity. Yes I was.
It was critical that it not be known publicly that I was working on a ...
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NDA agreement for interview task
I've had an interview with an ad agency and they've asked me to sign a NDA before I do an interview task.
Now, I understood this was to protect their clients which I believe are somewhat secretive ...
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Can I use NDA materials to force my employer to pay my salary if I haven't signed NDA agreement? [closed]
I've been working with this company for a quite some time, we don't have any formal agreement, I haven't signed anything. At the same time among our clients were some really big and well known ...
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Company may not let me tell my coworkers about my resignation
I will soon be resigning from my position at a company I’ve been with for 5 years. In the past, I have seen some (not all) employees who resigned from the company immediately get escorted out the ...
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Why the strict confidentiality clause in a severance agreement? [closed]
I've just left a job, and I am considering the severance agreement offered by the company. If I sign the agreement, I would get another two weeks' salary, on top of the two weeks' salary they have ...
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Does an NDA preventing me stopping doomed project? [closed]
Worked in research at a biotech company. I worked with a team of 20 for about 18 months on a promising novel technique. At that point we concluded that the technique wasn’t going to work. The project ...
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Franchise business failed due to franchisor fraud, NDA signed, how to list on resume / linked In
I recently took a chance to started a franchise business on the side of my normal job. During the course of the franchise myself and other locations became aware of fraud being committed by the ...
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Is it normal for NDA to disallow disclosure of personal opinion about the company? [closed]
The NDA I will have to sign contains a part about disallowing any public disclosure of personal opinion about the company and some company related things during employment and indefinitely after ...
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The Ownership and future of a system developed before I began working for the company
So I work as a Junior Software Developer for this company. During the interview process for this company I had to show the software that I had previously developed. I had developed a system (Web ...
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A moral dilemma - how to provide code sample for a new application given restrictions from current employer? [duplicate]
I would like to change employment. As part of the application process the new prospective employer would like me to provide a code sample. I cannot provide any of my work as that is proprietary and/or ...
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Confidentiality Agreement - Costs of the Company [closed]
My confidentiality agreement covers costs of the company as confidential information. Would that normally include my own salary? Are there any guidelines on this?
(A) Confidential Information means ...
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Employment Non-disclosure Agreement
I am considering changing positions, so I went to an interview and they liked me. That's it.
Now here is the problem, I asked them to see the contract of my employment, and they said that I first ...
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Contacting an ex employee of a potential client
There is a certain company that I want to try to sell my product to, but this company has somewhat of a monopolistic position in my market. Therefore I want to make sure I approach this in the right ...
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Is this 3 years NCA reasonable for a 3 month contract?
I am a fresh graduate in state of Michigan, and I have received an offer letter with 65% the market salary, along with a Confidentiality & Non-Competition Agreement that I need to sign. The ...
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Mention in the cover letter that I've done contractor work for the company
In my last job (no longer working there) I signed an NDA at a client's request. Can't talk about anything related, can't even mention the client's name[1].
Now I want to apply for a job opening in ...
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How to Handle Family/Friends asking about Classified Job
I recently got a new job at a large company's R&D department, and a lot of what I do is considered sensitive information to the company. Since getting the job and updating LinkedIn, a number of ...
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My employer wants me to a sign an NDA that is backdated more than 2 years
I've worked at my current employer for a little more than seven years. We're a small startup of about 20 employees. At the beginning of 2014, we started a new project that I was and still am involved ...
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How to handle a "we own everything you do" clause?
I started a new job yesterday and was given a document titled '[Company] Non-disclosure Agreement'. Hidden in that document is a clause stating that everything I do, on or off company time, is owned ...
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Can I sell my business idea in exchange for a job at the company that might be interested in it? [closed]
Me and my brother have an idea for a brand new product that would solve one widespread problem among the smartphone users.
But due to the fact that we don’t have required resources and opportunities ...
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Do I need to sign an NDA? [closed]
I applied for a job, worked there for one day and left again. I did not sign a contract yet and I'm not getting paid for my one day of work. Now they are asking me to sign an NDA. Am I legally forced ...
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Possible intellectual property theft issue for a web application [closed]
About a year ago, I started working for a company (I'll call them Company A) and helped develop a web application for them. Eventually, my manager asked me to make changes to the application for ...
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Applying for jobs, new company wants to see source code that I don't have access to any more
In recent job interviews, companies want to see the source code that I've written in my previous projects, to check my skills. I would be happy to do this, but in most cases, I can't! Either I'm ...
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How does a non disclosure agreement work in practice?
I can see this happening if I ever get hired by a competitor in the near future. I can't get into the details, obviously.
I see a current problem now that we have solved when I was with the ...
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