In the Facebook offer that I have received, there is a "Prior Inventions" section that I have to fill. There's a side project (web app) that I've been working on the side for some time now, not released in public yet, but I have the domain name and some code on my machine. Does it make sense to list this? I'd love to develop a side project (based on the aforementioned idea, or, potentially some other idea) that would bring me some passive income while being employed at Facebook. Of course that project would be non-competing against Facebook, and I would work on it strictly on my free time, and on my own equipment.
How would you fill the "Prior Inventions" section in a way that provides the maximum security if you want to work (coding specifically) on side projects in the future?
I would be particularly interested to hear from people who work at FAANG and already work on side projects, how do you make sure you are safe while doing that?
EDIT: Regarding what an "invention" constitutes, the contract mentions "all inventions, developments, processes, original works of authorship, code, ideas, trade secrets, know how, discoveries, concepts created by me prior to start working at Facebook"
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If there is a more generic IP section excluding the assignment rights to the company. I list all kinds of vague areas where I have side projects and interests, just to cover myself later. Things like “still and motion pictures not commissioned by the company, any tech not related to the role IoT, etc.
You develop something with value. Company claims it as theirs and uses that you didn’t list it on the form as proof.
So, list anything you wouldn’t want them to take.