Re:WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
by Latteland on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @01:44PM
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True, but protection from stealing trade secrets and stealing customers are very different from ordinary devs facing non-competes. Every job I have taken in 25 years as a dev has them, never specifying what a competitor really means. If I work on optimizing compilers for Google I can't work at another company for a year? Amazon has actually enforced them against nonvps. Big companies basically compete against everything in the industry. You are confusing the issue imho. My current job says I am working under California law but still put a non-compete on my contract, because they want to make people think they can't leave.
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Re:WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
by toast0 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:08PM
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> You are confusing the issue imho.
California companies often have you sign an agreement that prohibits working for competitors, and says they'll fire you if you do; as far as I know, those are enforceable. That seems to meet the naming convention of non-compete. Perhaps we need to use another word for the post-employment non-competes allowed in less civilized regions.
Re:WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
by gamblor956 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:52PM
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If you're working for a competitor while working for them...they probably should fire you simply as a matter of operational security unless you're doing the type of work where you wouldn't have any exposure to trade secrets.
Re:WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
by toast0 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:21PM
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Yeah, it's reasonable. Although it kind of kills any side projects if you're working at a big company; because name something fun to do that doesn't compete with Yahoo.
But that's what I think of, when someone says non-compete. Because it's the only kind of non-compete I've seen, no one has tried to get me to sign a post-employment non-compete.