That might be challenging as large companies tend to hit people with strong NDAs which means that any reference to time at $company would need to be approved by $company. IF you don't do this then you might be rinsed by the court.
> Large companies definitely don’t try to prohibit you from telling people you worked there.
They don't. But they do sometimes prohibit talking/writing about their work, the nature of it or anything remotely connected to it.
My current employer explicitly prohibits us from blogging about technical topics, creating learning material or even teaching anyone on technical subjects(e.g. on weekends at nearby school) outside the job for free/money.
That’s not very common either. I’ve never signed anything like that in 20 years in the industry (worked everywhere from tiny startups to very large tech companies).
In the case where your company does have a policy that that prohibits you from discussing the nature of your work, it’s likely completely unenforceable beyond them firing firing you.
The prohibition from teaching or blogging is definitely unenforceable.
Of course, that was the FTC in 2024. Who knows what the administration will change this year?
Sure, I can't talk much about company games I worked on outside of "I worked on this", even after release. But they sure as heck can't prevent me from making a tutorial on C++ in my free time.
> Large companies definitely don’t try to prohibit you from telling people you worked there.
no, thats not what I said.
Large companies that pay generous severance generally want a non disparagement agreement in return. This means that yes you can say you worked there, you might even be able to say what department you worked in.
What you can't say is that you worked on x,y or z, your opinion on the company direction or anything else that might be related to the company or is actions.
If you even speak of this NDA/non disparagement agreement to anyone other than the listed highly limited number of people, you'll have to pay back all the severance, plus legal costs.
So OP might want to tell you about their time, but they don't want to because it'll cost them a house worth of cash.
That's the only thing they tend t answer when background calls come in. They will answer if you worked there and no what dates unless it's your working under clearance. Even then I thiink you can mention most companies in a vague matter.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the game was nothing to do with Meta, and done as a solo dev effort? So no NDA applies.
A certain amount of talk about previous projects is routine in interviews. As long as it doesn't get too detailed or makes the previous employer look bad in public nobody will complain.
