Even if you sell your IP, the fact that you developed it outside of the company (i.e. on your own laptop, using third party software with your personal account) poses some risk for them. Whether this risk is justified obviously depends on what you're developing, etc.
For their IP, companies like "clean" assets -- stuff developed by employees on company systems. This is also true from an operational standpoint (if they want to customize or integrate with other in-house systems), they'd rather be able to do that in-house.
I worked in-house for a company that would literally spend waaayyy more time/money on building tools than licensing or buying them from somewhere else just because they didn't want to deal with the risk/headache.
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Even if you sell your IP, the fact that you developed it outside of the company (i.e. on your own laptop, using third party software with your personal account) poses some risk for them. Whether this risk is justified obviously depends on what you're developing, etc.
For their IP, companies like "clean" assets -- stuff developed by employees on company systems. This is also true from an operational standpoint (if they want to customize or integrate with other in-house systems), they'd rather be able to do that in-house.
I worked in-house for a company that would literally spend waaayyy more time/money on building tools than licensing or buying them from somewhere else just because they didn't want to deal with the risk/headache.