Legal question

[Gasolene]

just curious...

if I do web/database work for a company, can I add the projects to my portfolio if i mention i did this while working for the company??

I'm not selling them, just 'showing them off' to future customers / employers.

thnx,

[andymoo]

i'd say yeah it's okay if they're okay with it and there's no non disclosure agreement.

we've done some stuff for some people that we can shout about and some things for some people which we've gotta keep silent on.

as for the employment angle i'd say check the contract

[Weedpacket]

I agree; check your contract just in case, but generally you're okay to say "as an employee of Foo, Inc., clients included X, Y and Z", even if you don't get into the technical gritty bits of exactly what you did and how (that sort of stuff you'll probably find is owned by your employer). It's much better for you than not being able to say "I worked for Foo, Inc., where I did stuff."

Like andymoo, there were cases where I cannot say just who the work was for, but usually I'm quite free to cite the client by name.

[Gasolene]

thnx,

just to clarify, I meant work i do as a fulltime employee of a web company, not contract work.

[Weedpacket]

Oh, it works either way; I've worked both ways and can namedrop in either case. (In the case of being a full-time employee, the fact that many web companies will have their own online portfolio of clients would make it kind of odd that you can't. You say you work for this company, and they say they did sites for these clients.... someone reading your resumé is in a position to at least guess who some of the clients you did work for are.)