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Good point. What is the bare minimum to qualify for "good performance?" What training information is classified as critical and necessary? Some specifics could be easily omitted, I expect. There could be a tinge of satisfaction in crippling your replacement.

I feel like in such a highly technical field it would be fairly easy to deliberately omit plenty of critical details without anyone noticing. It seems it would also be possible to make small additions to the system such that you would be the only person who really knows how things work.

As long as you answer all of their questions you would certainly be meeting the good performance stipulation. There would be no way for them to know whether you are providing the whole story. Why offer up information that is not specifically requested? After all, the hardest part of engineering is knowing which questions to ask in the first place.

I don't think I would find myself ignoring it as much as finding ways to violate it catastrophically.

When I first read your comment I thought you were referring to the employer with respect to the H1-B visa requirements. :(