His interviews are humorous. Those leading the interviews can't tell him what he'll be working on, and he can't tell them what he's done in the past.
The questions tend to be very theoretical, instead.
(Don't kill me, you all. I'm joking).
Sure, every company is going to have their 'special sauce' components, that ARE proprietary, but nobody's going to expect you to unpack those.
He worked for their competitor, but not in the capacity the interviewer was trying to delve into, so in addition to scummy, it was pointless and annoying.
At some point my friend cut the interview off.
In theory yes, in practice ... if that's true, why would anyone ever hire you for your experience? You wouldn't be allowed to use it.
But isn't that exactly why you as an interviewer would pose a problem, set up the context that is potentially similar to the work your project would require, and see how the interviewee navigates that?
And I sure would hope they bring all their experience to bear! Just because they learned about CDNs at their previous job and “everything is proprietary”, I don’t want them to suddenly forget how CDNs work.
Very little is actually unique between software businesses. We’re mostly just doing data bureaucracy.
There is term called prior art an for me if you write bunch of props to database like text/numbers it is basically done in every other system.
Unless you build novel db system of course.
In practice I can't imagine the spirit of any law would be violated by doing an architecture diagram, but it seems likely (to me, at least) the word of the law would be violated.