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by kelnos 2204 days ago
> the hiring team has always led me to believe that the non-competes are a standard clause and are not likely to be enforced.

My policy is: "Hey, if you don't plan on enforcing it, let's remove it from the contract... oh, you're not allowed to remove it? I guess we're done talking then." Fortunately I live in CA where they're not legally enforceable anyway.

> On a separate note, anybody knows if Google would help with legal defense of Hall or ignore this as a private matter?

It's certainly in Google's best interest that the suit goes well for Hall, so I imagine Google's legal counsel would represent him. The only way I'd figure they wouldn't get involved is if doing so would make it more likely that there'd be a bad outcome for some reason.

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> My policy is: "Hey, if you don't plan on enforcing it, let's remove it from the contract... oh, you're not allowed to remove it? I guess we're done talking then."

As a former lawyer, this is a very good policy to have.

Alarm bells should be going off if someone tries to browbeat you into accepting "standard terms" on the basis that "they're not enforced".