>However, many candidates might have their majority of the "good" code they've written owned by their previous company.
Which is a huge problem in this field that stymies wider innovation in technology by limiting discussion around technology through literal gag orders. You should be able to reuse whatever you write. It's silly. I'm not stealing cash out of the register, the company doesn't lose anything from me keeping a copy of my code snippet around for future reference. It's not the whole codebase, it's just what I've contributed. I swear, lawyers have ruined technology.
Which is a huge problem in this field that stymies wider innovation in technology by limiting discussion around technology through literal gag orders. You should be able to reuse whatever you write. It's silly. I'm not stealing cash out of the register, the company doesn't lose anything from me keeping a copy of my code snippet around for future reference. It's not the whole codebase, it's just what I've contributed. I swear, lawyers have ruined technology.