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Subject:Re: Portfolie... was Re: Am I experienced? From:"Dan Roberts" <droberts63 -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:16:05 -0400
fwiw, I dont remember signing a non-disclosure, and if I did, the final info was
either a) so convoluated, b so specific, or c) so general, that my transitory
doc2doc disclosure wouldn't have meant a hill of beans, and none of my
interviewers kept the samples.
Actually, one interviewer did ask to photocopy my doc about 'stateless' web
communication, but he could find the same info with a regular web search.
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>I'm curious how all of you get copies of things you've worked on in order to
>put them in your portfolio. Didn't you sign a "non-disclosure" agreement
>when you hired in? Isn't the stuff you work on considered proprietary and
>confidential? Do you ask your corporate lawyer and your manager whether you
>can make a copy of something in order to add it to your porfolio, or do you
>just pocket the copies without asking?
