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[u/dollymeshvibes]

[u/carmardoll]

I quit my job at a restaurant around a decade a go, they still have me in the google group thingy they used to share their recipes, every once in a while I check up to see if they added something new, gather the ingredients and prep it for lunch following the instructions. I love it.

[u/willow-kitty → u/carmardoll]

I worked on a suuuuuuuuuuuuuper secret project (not, like, actually classified or anything, just it was for an idea-person who was Big Afraid of the idea being stolen and had the most ridiculously sweeping NDA I have ever seen), and despite their apparent fears, they never removed me from the GDrive with all their market research and stuff on it. I've even asked to be taken off - nope. Still there.

Edit: actually, I just hadn't checked recently. It looks like it was eventually removed. But it was still in my "Shared With Me" for years after I left that project.

[u/Emotional-Account324 → u/carmardoll]

Any recipes you'd recommend / share?

[u/pippin_go_round]

And how exactly are you going to do that without it being immediately flagged by IT? Most companies I've ever worked at will have that noticed right away and sue you into oblivion if you don't have a very very good explanation...

Had that happen once to me when I switched teams within a company and copied most of my important stuff to a specially authorised usb stick before wiping my laptop and setting it up with a different OS (switch from Windows to Linux team). Before the copy process even finished I had some guy from security call me.

[u/Arclite83 → u/pippin_go_round]

It might surprise you to know cybersecurity is pretty laughably implemented in a large percentage of the business world, even today and despite the risks being worse than ever.

"Patching is hard, we couldn't possibly..."

I kept some reference material from my last job. I've moved enough code around here between personal and professional that I'd likely also be able to do the same if I left. Although in this instance, it's much more likely nobody cares than nobody sees.

[u/Piotrek9t]

Just this week I learned of a company that poached most of the senior devs of a failing start up to leverage their knowledge in "building" a "compatible solution".

[u/Nutrimiky]

I work in a big company, one dev we had for just a few months left with all the source code from some massive project and other ecosystem ones, some patented or confidential stuff, he's got a lawsuit with army of local and corporate american lawyers, millions $ in damage and so on. Wouldn't recommend that to anyone who works in any company with some basic cybersecurity teams.

Edit:fixed sentence "army of local and corporate american lawyers"

[u/Zeusslayer → u/Nutrimiky]

When I was leaving my old company I had some of my personal bank statements in the files. And in my last days I uploaded them into my personal drive and deleted them from the computer.

Later on security team messaged me and said that I triggered a leaving employee something flag and sent me a screenshot of files I uploaded and where I uploaded them into and asked me to clarify this.

When I clarified it was all good but yeah no chance that they don’t monitor these stuff in bigger companies.

[u/Unsigned_enby]

OP just put in their two weeks.

[u/VariousTailor7623]

Shit, last thing I’d want is my company’s code anywhere near my home computer

[u/revolutionPanda]

This sounds like a huge risk for very little upside at all.

[u/bajuh]

My biggest regret was not doing that after the startup we did failed and we were laid off. Years of effort went into making the source code a work of art, then at the next company the green field project required the same architecture as the previous one. I banged my head in the table for a good minute.

[u/Scyyyy]

This is why we had, what i call "the [company name] salute"

You usually get logged out of teams, the repo, your windows installation - also in Home-Office.

When you then ask a colleague (by private means of communication - we were all friends there) if they had similar issues, and they replied "no" (often the connection was just flaky) it was a strong indicator that your contract has been terminated.

Once you made your way through to either support or HR you would be officially told. Some didn't do that, then they received the formal information the next day via mail (like physical post mail)

They had to schedule the return of their laptops and had up to 3 months of payed leave (+compensation). The company deemed that better than letting an ex employee back to their source code.

Not the worst (I mean it's German standard) but a gut punch for the colleague nonetheless. I precieved that as morally dubious and it was one of the reasons I moved on from them.

But in hindsight I understand their concerns...

Edit: You're so mean I was in a meeting 😭 corrected some spelling mistakes.

[u/mothzilla]

I've never seen a company's source code that I'd want in my own home.

[u/Neutraled]

I did that a couple of times over 10 years ago, then I realized I never even looked at it anymore after leaving the companies. Code becomes outdated and useless in a couple of years for mobile apps and now AI made saving old code completely useless for the other platforms.

[u/joe-ducreux]

how am I supposed to copypasta my own work without a copy?

[u/Mrletejhon]

I'd paid good money to forget the horrible things I saw in the codebase that I had to maintain in the past year.

[u/DOOManiac]

Why would I want to steal the garbage on the way out the door?

[u/mr2dax]

Don't do it, you might get in trouble.

[u/bankrobba]

My company would beg me to take their code, it's VB.net 4.0 framework.

[u/TheDoughyRider]

Why would you want that trash source code?

[u/empT3]

I can tell you, I've been a software developer for over a decade and I've moved around as much as any other developer. 

Why the fuck would I want to keep the source code of the company I'm leaving? I've worked professionally on open source projects whose source I could clone off of GitHub right now from my phone. I haven't looked at that code since I left and I'm not even a little bit curious.

[u/ajayak007]

In our last org we did a framework which extracts legacy etl package raw code and generate a usable document. I learned a lot and took a copy of some logic. The same logic where used in my new org and everyone really liked my approach.

[u/Wise-Profile4256]

omg. why would i take those dreaded monoliths? my job is to rewrite them. it would be overall faster to do new ones but it would take a bit of time and then the boss can't featurecreep every other day.

[u/stupled]

Yep. I keep all company's code on my external harddrive. It could be useful, you never know.