Amazon's non-compete was the deciding factor for me not to join the company.
I went through all steps of the recruitment process, but bailed out after receiving the offer. I've had a chat with the hiring contact and I did tell them that I was concerned about the NCA, but they simply waived those away telling me "it's not a big deal". Funnily, even though they were asking if they could change something in the offer to convince me to join, the NCA was something that they wouldn't budge on.
Since me joining Amazon meant moving all the way from Europe, I was really uncomfortable with the prospect of potentially being stuck at Amazon because of that NCA, so I wished them luck and rejected the offer.
> Amazon's non-compete was the deciding factor for me not to join the company.
i would ask for, in advance of signing the non-compete (that lasts for X years) the equivalent of X year's of salary. I'm sure there's room to negotiate this so that the company has to pay out the approximate cost of a non-compete.
that's the way the law works in France. That's why I always receive a nice letter at the end of my contract: "we hereby release you from your non-compete agreement".
Basically you have to write everything about the end of the employment in the employment contract, otherwise you'll get shafted.
In France you do not have to write it, the law regulates this anyway. If you have a non compete, you have compensation.
The good thing with contracts on France (and when buying a house) is that everything is regulated and there is actually little space for any enforceable changes.
Granted, much smaller company. But after I got an offer I was given a ton of unusual documents to sign. Giving away all rights to my image as one odd ball.
I refused to sign several of them.
Hiring manager was highly confused. But was fine with it. Wasn’t a big deal to them at all.
Surprised me, because I almost walked away because of it.
I went through all steps of the recruitment process, but bailed out after receiving the offer. I've had a chat with the hiring contact and I did tell them that I was concerned about the NCA, but they simply waived those away telling me "it's not a big deal". Funnily, even though they were asking if they could change something in the offer to convince me to join, the NCA was something that they wouldn't budge on.
Since me joining Amazon meant moving all the way from Europe, I was really uncomfortable with the prospect of potentially being stuck at Amazon because of that NCA, so I wished them luck and rejected the offer.