alt Hacker NewsTheft of trade secrets and a non-compete are unrelated and separate things.
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saghm • today at 1:30 AM
Your gripe is with the parent comment then for mentioning them in the first place, not me. I was just responding to their aside.
Theft of trade secrets and a non-compete are unrelated and separate things.
Your gripe is with the parent comment then for mentioning them in the first place, not me. I was just responding to their aside.
Yes, this is why garden leaves are popular in quant finance.
You get paid for about a year to do nothing so that the trade secrets from your firm (trading strategies) expire.
That's very different from a non-compete. A non-compete is about your own know-how, not the company's.