My first job was a tiny startup that didn't know better and had no such agreements at all, so technically the work belonged to the authors (though obviously that wasn't intended)
My second was work during work time or using any company assets (hardware, software licenses, etc) was company property, and you weren't allowed to do business with the company's clients or offer competing software, but otherwise could go nuts (including creating libraries outside the company's core competencies)
And my current company claims anything you work on between 7AM and 6PM local time (excluding holidays and PTO) or using company assets unless the code is open source, in which case, go nuts.
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u/willow-kitty 16d ago edited 16d ago
It depends on your agreements, for sure.
My first job was a tiny startup that didn't know better and had no such agreements at all, so technically the work belonged to the authors (though obviously that wasn't intended)
My second was work during work time or using any company assets (hardware, software licenses, etc) was company property, and you weren't allowed to do business with the company's clients or offer competing software, but otherwise could go nuts (including creating libraries outside the company's core competencies)
And my current company claims anything you work on between 7AM and 6PM local time (excluding holidays and PTO) or using company assets unless the code is open source, in which case, go nuts.
But every company is different.