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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While a lot of people are saying that they aren’t really enforceable (which is mostly true), as I write this, not many people are saying how they would be enforced if a company tried to.
They would sue the ex-employee for breach of contract.
The reason it might be their business to care what company you go to is mostly so that you don’t take knowledge or customers you gained from working for them to other companies. But really those kinds of things can be enforced with other laws.
As for how they would know what company you went to, they would probably look you up on LinkedIn or Facebook or something to see if you went somewhere else. The company most likely wouldn’t actually care to look, but if you made it public they could know.
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