Do you just not tell Amazon about your side project and only quit once it becomes successful or right before it gets funding and you create a LLC? Any tips from those who have done this successfully?
Hey in my org at MS they don’t own our IP. I mean obviously don’t use corporate resources to make it but then you are set. I would honestly just look to move to a job where there are no parallels. You gotta sacrifice a little to pull shit off.
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I guess I'll have to do more research and learn how others moonlighted T_T
Not a lawyer. Instead of thinking about this as a clear cut scenario think about it as a probability distribution. Legal risk is a quantity. Estimate expected value and act accordingly.
Work on your personal machine only Don’t let any of your work touch employer property Don’t let any of your work make its way online (publicity or source code) until after you quit
The whole work on your machine and not ship is kind of silly. Hopefully we all realize waterfall doesn’t work as well as actively iterating with users. Similarly it’s not realistic to create that entire thing you shipped one week after you quit in one week. Either accept the risk that if you make it big you might have issues. Or switch to a different company with better moonlighting policy.
I'm pretty sure that in California moonlighting is perfectly legal and they don't own anything of yours as long as you don't do it on company time or equipment.
Not true. Depends heavily on the circumstance and your employment agreement. Definitely worth looking in to, likely with a lawyer, if it matters a lot to you.
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Terrible idea. You sign away your IP rights to anything you come up with within the scope of your employment contract. It's very easy for your employer to claim that you wouldn't have come up with whatever idea if you hadn't been employed by them. Dunno about Amazon but Google has a process where you can get a release for an idea if its judged to not be competitive with an area of Google's business. If you don't do something like this, you might not get pursued after leaving, but you might and it's not at all worth the risk of forfeiting a large stake in your new venture to your old employer
So you're saying we all should quit our jobs before pursuing anything even if it would probably fail 99%, that sucks
Response is technically correct from a legal perspective but totally irrelevant from a practical position. Amazon loses half their devs every two years and needs to replace them, not steal your IP worth maybe a few million and scare off thousands of experienced devs with options. Unless your idea is worth 50 billion+ dollars or is directly related to your work at Amazon, you'll be fine. Here's a practical suggestion: work on your project on your local machine and keep local backups. Commit it to github 2 months after you quit. Now, if you're asking if you can uh... found your own startup and get paying customers while *continuing to work for amazon*, you're being really silly. Can you imagine why an employer might not be ok with you working for two companies simultaneously?