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soperj on Sept 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

> How would you prove that you write the code long before getting hired by them?

Commit it to a repo somewhere.

hu3 on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

This is what I did once. And it worked!

I have a 4 years 1 day old repo for code that was used in a job 4 years ago.

But I made sure to have a written agreement saying that the code I was bringing in was, within reasonable limits, still mine.

Clearly this doesn't include code that was produced during the job.

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