I've been able to alter that "we own your crap" section of every employment contract I've needed to. Don't sign. speak up. Carefully write and submit a reasonable alternative. This may be harder with megacorps...
With the prior company it was basically just altering it to say they don't own anything I created prior to my employment even if i continue to work on it and that I would give them notification for new projects.
This is a bit easier when your company does _one_ thing and you simply don't write any code related to that industry on your free time. Harder with a Google that does pretty much everything.
In general, you have the power to alter this and your NDA, as long as your suggestions are reasonable. I find it best to use my programmer brain and simple language to write out a very precise bit of replacement language and give it to them as a suggestion of what you want.
My co. just updated their NDA and I noticed my changes from when I was offered a job in the new version.
Mind mentioning which companies? I’ve tried in all companies I’ve worked with (some FAANG, some medium sized companies) and none of them are willing to even touch terms including IP assignment clauses. Without exception it was “Sign it unmodified it GTFO!”
With the prior company it was basically just altering it to say they don't own anything I created prior to my employment even if i continue to work on it and that I would give them notification for new projects.
This is a bit easier when your company does _one_ thing and you simply don't write any code related to that industry on your free time. Harder with a Google that does pretty much everything.
In general, you have the power to alter this and your NDA, as long as your suggestions are reasonable. I find it best to use my programmer brain and simple language to write out a very precise bit of replacement language and give it to them as a suggestion of what you want.
My co. just updated their NDA and I noticed my changes from when I was offered a job in the new version.