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> I heard from friends that they had to sign an NDA just to interview

Is this not standard practice? I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't sign an NDA before interviewing.

Granted, I've only interviewed at public companies, but I've never signed a NDA in my life.

Are you sure? The large companies I visit, and quite a number of small ones, have NDAs as part of the sign-in process.

No NDA when interviewing at the Fortune 100s/Global Fortune 500 I've worked at.

I just double-checked, searching my email archives from everything from Envoy, a common front-desk app. Some of these places were interviews; most were just visiting somebody. All of them had NDA language, including these companies: Asana, Blink Health, Lever, Lyft, NerdWallet, Reddit, Slack, StitchFix, and Twilio. Just to walk in the door.

Maybe those folks are all outliers somehow. But I doubt it.

Sounds like it's mostly an SV thing then? A lot of things are handled very differently out there.

The OP's relayed complaint was that they would not tell him what he would be working on. A good reason not to accept a job.

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