Can I borrow source code from my old employer?

Question

Career in IT

There are a lot of projects, there is a lot of ready-made code.
When you come to a new employer, you need to show something.
All home projects are too primitive, but you can really be proud of what you did at work, you need to brag about them in some way, how is it customary to do it?
It's just that all the salt is in finished projects, and not in some separate pieces of code.
Can anyone share their experience?
There is an option to record a video of the project, will the employer + screenshots appreciate it?
I just changed few offices, I don’t know what is valued today: experience, complexity and scale of projects or high-quality code, even if it is not enough.

Answer 1

To begin with, let's assume that you are sure that you did not explicitly give any obligations (whether under an employment contract or otherwise) that may affect your private situation, in particular non-disclosure obligations . That is, we operate only with copyright defaults, as they operate in Russia.
IANAL, TINLA, but nevertheless:
- I can't imagine any reasonable justification on which the owner of exclusive property copyrights to a work (hereinafter referred to as the owner) can forbid its author to have a copy of this work, since he naturally has it.
“I can't think of any reasonable justification why a master could forbid anyone who has a legitimate copy of his work from showing it to anyone.
“Here, “show” means exactly “show”, and not make another copy and give it to someone, much less publish it for an unlimited circle of people; these rights belong to the owner, and even the author must ask his direct permission for this. I remind you that such permissions are called "license agreements" and are concluded only in writing.

Answer 2

usually they do their own thing, they put it on github,
and so - why does the employer have it, it’s possible to have archives of snippets

Answer 3

What the employer appreciates: Canary - for a penny, to sing and not eat.

Answer 4

If the project is public, you can simply show a link to it and say that you wrote this and that in it. In general, at the interview, I love when people talk about their experience in words, this is a good topic for conversation.

Answer 5

Imagine yourself as an employer. You will write code for him, plus he will give you access to his code, for which a lot has been paid.
If you share other people's secrets so easily, can he trust you with his own?