The painful cost of confidentiality agreements: 5 tech workers reveal how restrictive NDAs left them struggling to get a job and isolated from friends
Become an InsiderEvading questions from family. Seeking treatment for depression and PTSD. Struggling to land a new job after dozens of interviews. Signing a separation agreement to keep access to health insurance.
While others said talking about their experiences made them feel heard for the first time."After talking with you I felt a weight lifted that I didn't know was there," said Kira , who signed an NDA as part of a settlement agreement after she was raped by a male colleague during a business trip. While the scope of nondisclosure agreements has been curbed in part by new legislation in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the toll these secrecy pacts can have on workers often remains a mystery, experts say. Insider published many workers' stories in an effort to bring transparency to a notoriously opaque aspect of Silicon Valley, where employees frequently change jobs and swap stories with one another in the shadows.
When questions came up in job interviews about why she left her previous employer, the woman said she had to dance around the subject. At one point, she said she suggested an interviewer"just Google them" and hoped they would"see the culture I was trying to get away from." Another tech worker who left an AI startup last year due in part to ideological issues with the direction of the business, faced a similar dilemma during job interviews.
After she notified her HR rep that she had been being sexually harassed by a customer for weeks, the woman said she was told that she"should be flattered" and that she needn't worry about the customer, who represented a major client based across the country.
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