I was reading about the non-compete before I got a copy of it. The offer letter made it seem very broad. It seems that it has been greatly narrowed to be more compliant with the WA state law. Essentially it says you cannot go work on/support a product competing with a product you worked on/supported at Amazon. Period is for 18 months. Seems more reasonable now. The rev date on what I read was July 2019.
So, you work at a company, get some experience with a certain technology and then later if you want to shift to another company, you can't work on it anyway... Doesn't that void most of your experience? I surely get the point of why it is important as well, you shouldn't be able to just take the good bits from a product and shift them over to a different company, but this still feels a bit weird
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There have been cases of lower levels sued but I don't know what triggered them to do that. It is dangerous for them because if it goes to trial, it could set a precedent that severely limits their noncompete. It looks like the new version narrows it to a more reasonable level and just to protect someone taking their work to someone else. As a TPM, though I wonder if just PMing a competing product would be a problem.