Yes, the key point is AWS actually tries to enforce these non-competes. If you are past a beginning engineer you'll be in terror of amazon suing you if you leav

Yes, the key point is AWS actually tries to enforce these non-competes. If you are past a beginning engineer you'll be in terror of amazon suing you if you leave. All my friends (who are experienced) have lived in worry after they left. Noncompetes are a terrible, horrible idea. The Washington state legislature considered legislation blocking them. They got noncompetes removed for sandwich makers (companies literally made people making minimum wage sign non-competes!), I think the threshold was 100k or something. But amazon pushed very hard. Tell your wa state leg rep that you want to end noncompetes.