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how successful has Amazon been, historically, in enforcing these clauses? I've had Amazon recruiters trying to bring me in for an interview for several years n

• vkou 9y ago
  They don't have to be successful at enforcing them. The threat of a potential lawsuit scares employees, and - more importantly - scares their competitors from hiring Amazon employees. If you were an employer, and you had two candidates - one from Amazon, bound by a mountain of non-competes, and one from Google, who isn't - which would you choose? Maybe the Amazon person is a bit better, but they also come with the possibility of six figures in legal fees.
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• leggomylibro 9y ago
  Not very. They typically either lose, lose so badly that they are forced to rewrite their contracts, or claim victory after being forced to pay the employee for the time they'd be prevented from working. The problem is, if you're an individual, it's a huge pain in the ass to duke this sort of thing out. You might even get unlucky in a cut-and-dry case, simply by virtue of not having much money to spend on it.