You refuse to sign the NDA

Elon looks mega disappointed. “We can’t hire you unless you sign this NDA. I’m afraid it’s non-negotiable.”

“Should I have a lawyer look over this first?”

“I have a lot of other coders begging to work for me, so it’s a yes or no right now.” He replies.

You thumb through the pages, filled with legalese. You notice some weird stipulations such as not working for other government agencies for 10 years. What do you do?

Give up, don’t sign the NDA

Sign the NDA

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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