"The language in the IP agreement I signed said the exact opposite."
Did you actually attend the week two training we give entitled "open source and IP", that covers this in great detail?
"Engineers from the group I was in left because of this."
I would love to know who you believe left because of this. In the 11 years i've worked at Google, the vast majority of people i've seen leave in this situation left because they basically wanted to start a competitive startup, get the IP from google, and still get paid by google at the same time (quite literally).
The number of people who left for ideological reasons i can count on one, maybe two hands.
Did you actually attend the week two training we give entitled "open source and IP", that covers this in great detail?
"Engineers from the group I was in left because of this." I would love to know who you believe left because of this. In the 11 years i've worked at Google, the vast majority of people i've seen leave in this situation left because they basically wanted to start a competitive startup, get the IP from google, and still get paid by google at the same time (quite literally). The number of people who left for ideological reasons i can count on one, maybe two hands.