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Build a short, fair NDA for job candidates who will see internal systems, code or roadmaps during an interview or take-home exercise.
A candidate NDA covers the narrow window in which someone outside the company is shown internal code, roadmaps, metrics or systems during a hiring process. It works best when it is short, scoped to what the candidate will genuinely see, and unmistakably not a non-compete. This generator builds that document from the materials you tick, sets the confidentiality period and deletion deadline from the interview date, keeps ownership of any take-home exercise with the candidate, and preserves the right to report unlawful conduct to a regulator.
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The confidentiality definition lists the specific materials you tick, rather than an open-ended catch-all a candidate is asked to sign blind.
States expressly that it is not an offer, creates no employment relationship, and does not restrict where the candidate may work.
Reports word count and reading time and warns past 900 words, the point at which candidate NDAs stop being read.
Only when they will genuinely see non-public material — source code, unreleased products, real metrics or internal systems. Asking every applicant to sign one before a first conversation is a common complaint and costs candidates. Scope it to the stage where confidential access actually begins.
The candidate does, as the author, unless they assign it in writing. A fair candidate NDA says the company may use the submission only to evaluate the candidate, and not in a product or client deliverable without a separate written agreement and payment.
It should not, and a well-drafted one says so expressly. A confidentiality agreement protects information; a non-compete restricts employment and is a different instrument. Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 voids agreements in restraint of trade, and California Business and Professions Code section 16600 voids non-competes outright, with related sections restricting even offering one to an applicant.
One to three years is typical, since the commercial sensitivity of a roadmap or metric fades quickly. Trade secrets are usually carved out and protected for as long as they stay secret. Anything longer is hard to justify for someone who spent a few hours in a hiring process.