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Many programmers sign this. I directly know that at least two FAANG employers (and probably all of them), have extremely broad copyright assignment clauses in their employment agreements that claim ownership of every software you create, on or off the clock, using company equipment or your own equipment. And many people work for these companies.

Whether these are enforceable or not doesn't matter because a lone developer is not going to go up against an army of corporate lawyers to find out.



Yeesh. Once again glad to be a 1X who doesn't work for a FAANG and has non-tech hobbies.

I would argue those are exceptional cases. Outside of these prestige brands, you get a lot more leeway.


Plenty of average people work at faang, and anyway, these terms are also common at less famous companies.




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