[Denver, CO] I just got slapped with a non-compete which will block me from taking a 120% raise with another company

I'll be talking to a lawyer tomorrow. After talking to a few people that have experience with NCAs and have read my contract they believe there is no substance.

The geographical location is "any state, country, or municipality that we do business in." It's an online business, so they do business everywhere. I did not see any specific wording on the duration other than a 1 year non solicitation agreement, which has not been a concern.

I am not a manager and I did not sell the business and according to Colorado law the only place they can get me is through "proprietary information" which they describe as "any software, designs, ideas" etc produced by the company. There also has to be a great effort into keeping secret truly "proprietary information." We had no procedures or security. Every engineer has access to everything.

Like I said, I'm speaking to a lawyer tomorrow. Honestly I think this company is scrambling because they're a 100 million dollar company that controlled an unknown tech hub but there are now two multi billion dollar corporations moving into the space a building thousand employee dev centers.

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