Hopefully it works differently than that. As in, prospective employees don't want to be 'infected' by Amazon, so they don't start working there. Obviously this

Hopefully it works differently than that. As in, prospective employees don't want to be 'infected' by Amazon, so they don't start working there. Obviously this is a long shot, but if this happened often enough to become a problem for Amazon, they might remove the non-compete clause from their employment contracts.