Engineer Denied Promotion After Building High-Value System on Personal Time
An engineer voluntarily built an embedded hardware and cloud system on personal time that saved their employer $90K monthly. The company now wants to control the code without offering a promotion or IP clarity. This reflects a persistent tension between employee initiative, corporate IP policy, and compensation fairness.
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