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by Peroni 4839 days ago
Things are starting to shift. More and more employers are looking to see code repo's prior to even looking at your CV in detail.

On our blog we do a series of interviews called Hacker Jobs Meets... where we pose ten questions to CTO's, Tech Directors and start up founders across the UK and almost all place a significant amount of emphasis on the importance of having visible code prior to an interview.
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walshemj 4839 days ago
Which in the UK would belong to your employer in most cases any major piece of work is 95% likely to have been done at work.

You need to talk to a HR professional and understand how the master and servants act (as amended ) apply and who owns what.

Startups could be opening up them selves to legal attack by competitors if they are found to be looking at a competitors code.

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Peroni 4839 days ago
I'm starting to wonder if you're actually being serious.

The vast majority of employers (at least the better ones) like to review developers github/bitbucket repo's in advance. Everything in there is open-source.

Your master and servants act has literally zero relevance to my point.

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walshemj 4839 days ago
Yes I am being deadly serious In the UK if its at all related to your work - your employer owns your work if its at all "related" even if you do it outside work on your own equipment.

This is direct from a very senior hr/ir Guy (our GC at the time) when we where discussing the implications of this for a colleague who had come up with some advanced algos for improving big iron systems - IBM used to get him in to consult for them as he was a Mainframe rockstar

And you don't know much about UK and US employment laws as most of it descends from the original M&S act as both countrys share the same roots for their legal systems.

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