On a personal note, I once was presented with such a (US) contract that also required me to list every NDA I had signed to date; Since then, I always assume most US lawyers are beyond incompetent.

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bruce511 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's funny. Some NDAs I've signed prohibit you from mentioning any contact with the company involved (thus you're not allowed to mention the NDA) so my answer would be;

"Under the terms of NDAs I have signed I am not free to disclose that list."

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anticensor 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Couldn't the employer convert that into a filter?

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bruce511 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure I'm understanding your point. Can you elaborate?

	▲	joshjdr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From a prospective employer’s perspective: Is the candidate going to respect the NDA you’re planning to ask them to sign? Similar to asking the candidate what they dislike about their previous boss. Their response may indicate how they’ll talk about you someday.

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anonzzzies 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We have been sued over signed contracts many times over the 3 decades we are in business. Almost only by US companies, but well, shitty for them, Dutch judges (and lawyers) rather laugh about those overbearing things in those contracts. We don't even need a lawyer before we sign them as we know they are worth nothing here. And that's been tested many times now. Fyi; we didn't break them; it's just that we are tech troubleshooters-for-hire and we work for many companies (1000s) over time; the suing is always the paranoid delusions were the contract states we cannot provide our services for any competitors of them or even companies that are not competing but in the same market forever and ever. F offfff. But yeah, it costs them a lot of money and we are insured for it (which is cheap compared); we don't waste any time or money on this.