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> you hire for the skills to develop your own proprietary system. The employer doesn't own the skill.

Oh OK! Then I guess a good engineer should be able to make it through a standard systems design interview process, and shouldn't complain about it!

I am glad you agree that it is totally fine to ask engineers these types of questions, and there is no problems with NDAs that will get in the way of them demonstrating basic skills!

That was my point entirely.

Yes, I totally agree that an engineer should be able to go through a tech interview.

And the engineers who are complaining about the fact that they have an NDA are wrong, and they should stop complaining.

If the NDA is so significant that it prevents you from doing an interview, then you are worthless as an employee anyway. But really that should never happen.



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