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Re:Ask HN: View Company's source code in a job interview? by kyanite on Saturday March 08, 2014 @01:37AM (#7364451)
This makes me worry. I have signed an NDA in a heated interview scenario before. It was many pages long too.

WTF did I just sign?

Re:Ask HN: View Company's source code in a job interview? by hga on Saturday March 08, 2014 @09:28AM (#7365242)
Well, as I note enforcing it could be quite difficult. And more than 1 or 2 pages is a really bad sign.

The real danger probably isn't that they'll try to enforce it per se, but that they could make you "radioactive" by the threat of it, or an enforcement action, even if ultimately unsuccessful. Hopefully no or few potential future employees will ask about them, and if this happened in California and you're still they (it gets more complicated if you're only now in the state), any non-compete provisions are unenforceable as such.