I live in a European country, and while non-competes are legal, if a company chooses to exercise them, they are also forced to continue to pay you for the durat

I live in a European country, and while non-competes are legal, if a company chooses to exercise them, they are also forced to continue to pay you for the duration, and you can still take a non-competing job in the mean time. Non-competes are also judged rather narrowly: they can't ban you from working for any tech company, they need to operate in the same space as the one you worked in before.