What developers get wrong about their employment contracts (and the four clauses worth actually reading)

I built justtheterms.com because I kept signing employment contracts I didn't fully get. Not the whole contract. Just one paragraph. The one that seemed important but I couldn't parse the legalese. So I'd Google it, find conflicting info, and eventually just sign anyway. After building a tool that breaks down contract clauses into plain English, I've seen a lot of these paragraphs. Here's what comes up most often for developers. 1. The IP assignment clause This is the one most developers miss. I