There are things in both contracts that are likely not enforceable. If you litigate them you become "non friends" :-) So there is always a cost. My employment a

There are things in both contracts that are likely not enforceable. If you litigate them you become "non friends" :-) So there is always a cost. My employment attorney felt that Google's employment contract over steps the protections provided by California in terms of outside work [1]. The way this works out in practice is you read the terms before you sign, if you find any that you can't live with you ask them to change, and if they won't change them then you don't sign and don't get what ever benefit they were offering in exchange for signing like employment, severance, etc. [1] I got to test this by participating as an expert witness (independent contractor) at a patent hearing and having the opposing counsel ask Google's counsel to make me available for deposition (my day job). That was an interesting conversation at work.