Like I've said before, learn how contracts work people! First, never sign willy nilly. second, you always have a right to mark out and modify parts and present

Like I've said before, learn how contracts work people! First, never sign willy nilly. second, you always have a right to mark out and modify parts and present them back for acceptance. Third, each thing is a separate contract, don't assume because you accepted the employment agreement that also means you have to sign (an unmodified) anything else like an nda or non-compete. I just got out from under a biotech non-compete of two years recently, but after talking with friends in the legal friend they just laughed and said they love getting non-compete tossed because they are mostly unenforceable. As a senior sysadmin I always saw it as a sort of test. I'm going to be entering the company into contracts (with the isp for example) so I better be able to actually read them and know how to modify and negotiate them. It's one of the things I tell my teams too... stop signing anything anyone puts in front of you, and that includes HR! These are the sort of issues on the tech side that a MBA in a role like CTO/CIO should be catching and correcting. As for employment agreements, there is a lot of stuff that HR does that ought to be consulted with counsel but isn't, and is therefor is questionably legal or enforceable.