Eli5: how exactly can companies enforce non-compete contracts? How is it their business what company you go to, and how would they even know?
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Pretend you’re like a Chief Technology Officer of a company. You know the ins and out, the software coding, how everything functions. You’re not the CEO, but you’re pretty high up in position where you get recognition.
If you move company, you can basically copy the blueprint over from the former company to the new one. Non competes are made for these people, so that they wouldn’t be able to copy the success of a company to it’s competitors. When a big time CTO changes job, there’s articles everywhere and the former company can file a lawsuit.
This doesn’t work with low positions like janitors. The only way they can sue you is if they know you moved to a competing company, but they’ll only find out through stalking you – and they won’t waste their resources on a low position.
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