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What type of coding is done in companies?
Web-based startups are more likely to be programming in Python and JavaScript. Larger companies tend to develop their internal software applications using C# or Java and their Web applications using PHP. Programs for data analytics typically use the R and MATLAB programming languages.
Should an IT manager know how do you code?
In short, it depends on what you are managing. If you are A) exclusively a manager of software developers, then yes, you should probably still know how to code and have a programming background. Once you are the boss, your primary job is to do all the things that individual programmers can not do.
Can my former employer’s competitors write their own code?
Sure, competitors could write their own code to solve the same problem, but they shouldn’t get the advantage of building on work that your employer paid for, owns, and didn’t authorize you to take. If they have any sense at all, your new employer doesn’t want any part of the code that you took from your former employer.
Can I write code for work for hire?
Some employers limit the work for hire to any code written on company time and/or using company resources. So for example if you use your company issued laptop on the weekend to write a Facebook game, they have legal claim to it.
Can I use the source code of a company I own?
If that’s the case, then you are under the line for copyright and intellectual theft. You cannot use the source code of your company, even if developed and extended by you. But, if the work is done outside the office and is entirely yours own. Then no company in the world can sue you.
Who owns the copyright to the code that an employee writes?
That said, here is my (non-professional) understanding of Software Copyright law as pertains to employees. Without a contract specifically stating otherwise (usually in the form of a “Work for Hire” clause), by default a developer owns the copyright to all code he writes.