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I didn't get a job at a startup in MA because they feared my last company's non-compete.
by ivankirigin 18y ago
I didn't get a job at a startup in MA because they feared my last company's non-compete.
- ygcfububyuf 18y agoMA courts have a reputation for enforcing non-competes so strongly that many silicon valley companies have a blanket no MA hiring policy. That is beginning to hurt companies in MA, whether they use non-competes or not, when they try and hire. Ultimately this hurts the state's income.
- tptacek 18y agoI've been involved in legal posturing between companies over noncompetes before, too. I wonder if, even if courts refuse to enforce noncompetes against individuals, the agreements will still have teeth between companies; just the cost of taking an ultimately doomed lawsuit to court might be deterrent enough.
- ivankirigin 18y agoIndeed. Their fear wasn't the lawsuit, but delaying a product launch by a few months, at best.